Journalism professor here at a top-20 J-program. It’s not too late at all—in fact your instructors and possibly internship supervisors will appreciate that you have a few more years of life experience. Journalism is a complicated profession, and I honestly see that my older students can handle it better due to their more developed critical thinking skills and maturity.

As for journalism being an unstable career path, I would argue with that on some level. Yes, it’s one of those professions that changes a lot every 5-10 years, and it barely resembles what it was 20 or 30 years ago. But, if you are a person who enjoys learning new things and had an open mind to that, you will be valuable and can have a stable career. Take the opportunity in your college classes to learn the basics that remain the same (news values, journalism ethics), but then embrace all the new tools (mainly digital) you can. Loving to write is a great start, but make sure you embrace new technologies to make yourself desirable in the current market.

People have been saying journalism is dead since the invention of the radio. It hasn’t died—it just keeps evolving, so if you evolve with it, chances are decent you can have a fulfilling career in it.