Career worries again

Again, I've been confronted by the grim spectre of 'What Next?' today, while in conversation with my dad I wonder what I should do next. What I really should and want to do next is remove myself from the narrow and corrupting influence my parents have on me. Extremely controlling, they want me to do something they approve of, which may not necessarily be what I want to do. What I'd really like to do: be a writer.

Unfortunately the pay is pretty crappy for most writers, unless you have a New York Times bestseller and/or your book gets optioned and turned into a movie, like the Harry Potter series. Although I'm more of a gamer than a writer, I suppose it'd be more interesting to write for games, more specifically role-playing games. I love my hobby as a DM on some of the NWN servers (something I should do more often -_- ). Of course, to get into some of these creative writing courses requires that I submit a portfolio. It's too late this year, so I wonder what to do ...
Perhaps what I'll do is wait and see if I get into pharmacy at Charles Darwin. If I do, cool, I'll do it and if I get admitted into JET while I'm at it, I'll take some time off to teach in Japan. If not, then I'll spend a year off reassessing my life, working, and again, if I get into JET, I'll again go to Japan, and if I still want to be a writer, then I'll get started working on a portfolio.

Good things that happened today:
- My brother paid me back for getting Six Sacred Stones. For some reason, he gave me back the whole $30 that I paid for the book. Free money is never unappreciated ^_^
- Laid to rest my fears that I'll do crap on the bioinformatics test tomorrow. Hopefully it should be a bit simpler to do, as long as the teacher doesn't try to get me to do a lot of complicated stuff.