New Directions

So, graduation is in less then two weeks. I didn't think that I had enough credits to make it, but I got an e-mail about two weeks ago letting me know that "they" looked over my transcripts and I can receive my B.A. That is awesome. It has taken me 6 years to complete this 4 year degree, so I am just happy that it is over with! And now it looks like I will be heading into a couple more years of school. My B.A. is in Inter-cultural Communications, and now I want to combine that with a degree in Journalism.
We'll see what happens. I enjoy writing and to do that full time would be great. I am not in the slightest bit interested in writing fiction, but I like taking a bunch of facts and making the readable. I love to read fiction, but I can't even imagine the work it takes to start from an empty paper and make-up people and places and histories and....yeah, beyond me!!
So the next couple weeks I will be contacting magazines and seeing what is required to work for them. Do I need an A.A.? Do I just need to take some journalism classes?
Kinda exciting, yet as always, new paths in life are scary, especially when I have a family in tow!