Via Yahoo front page:

Number 1 of “7 jobs to skip college for”

“1. Freelance Photographer: $47,800 median salary
Lee says that non-degree jobs tend to fall into one of two categories: technical or entrepreneurial. Being a freelance photographer requires a high degree of business savvy in addition to photography skills. Depending on the type of work you do, you might take product shots, family portraits, corporate head shots, wedding pictures, or other images, and then touch up the pictures digitally and send them to clients for review.”

PFT, yeah! They forgot this part:

This profession is great if you like people taking advantage of you, fighting month to month to make rent, and being involved in a profession where advancement has nothing to do with skill and determination and everything to do with being in the right place and knowing the right people. 

This is exactly the misconception that is KILLING photography.  Every joe shmoe picks up a camera and thinks he will make a quick buck.  I feel sorry for those young, hungry kids who are just getting in to the field of photography.  It is anything but a quick buck and if you are skipping college for this, you’d better think twice.