Where to after this??

Here's a little different blog for you to read this is more of a "personal" blog than I normally do feel free to pass it on via Facebook, twitter, ect...and help me get some feedback on ideas and maybe this will come across the right persons computer screen.


I will be starting my internship with the awesome guy's at Wired2Fish in exactly a week, and in case you haven't learned already I will be graduating with my degree in Business Marketing in December if things go well. I currently hold an Associates degree in Business Administration and feel like I have done fairly well at making my mark in the fishing industry. Now that my college career is about to end I have to answer the question...."Where to after this"?

I have been very blessed to live on Lake Neely Henry and cut my "teeth" fishing this lake, starting with bream, catfish, then moving to fishing bass tournament's. When I was just 12years old I fished my first full day bass tournament out of my grandfather's flatbottom boat and beat some of the local big names winning 3rd place and getting a $750 check. Some of the guy's I beat fish the PAA, BASS Opens, ect...so that was pretty impressive for a 12 year old kid, of course I may be partial lol.


I would really like to start a full-time guide service on Lake Neely Henry next year but I know how hard it is to do. I have been very blessed to be in a couple magazines along the way and took out a lot of people on the lake just guiding part-time between school classes, work, ect...but now that graduation is upon me I got to figure our where to head from here and how to make a living. I have college loan payments that are going to show up in my mailbox if I have a trip booked or not, I have bills to pay, ect....so I figure I need an alternate source of income until my guide service starts going "full steam". It's really hard to find a job that you can say "hey, I have a guide trip today, I can't come in". I have decided that pretty much my only option would be that of an outdoor writer. I have been involved in the outdoors since I was 4years old going squirrel hunting with my grandfather and have always been involved in hunting and fishing. I feel like being an outdoor writer would give me the opportunity to write before or after trips, and also I could write about my guide trips in general, test product's, that type of thing while I am with a guide client. I feel like being on the water everyday guiding would greatly help me as a writer and being able to write awesome articles on every aspect of fishing.


If you know anyone that is willing to help me out, I would greatly appreciate you sending them my way regarding this subject. I honestly do not know the way to go about writing for money, the only experience I have in writing is through college papers. I would need somebody to teach me the "technical side" of writing because I already know about the "fishing and outdoor side" of writing. I appreciate the help everyone and greatly looking forward to an exciting year next year and school semester as I work with Wired2Fish and learn from this awesome group of guy's!
Thank You,
Dustin King