The cold, hard fact

Although this is not a very encouraging article, I thought I should let you know. Nevertheless, this topic is mainly targeting the commercial photographers. Photojournalists is a different specie because we don't work "for" our clients. We work "for" the people, and the news agency. Ideally, if your editor is a professional journalist who stick with his/her professional code, you are pretty much able to work independently and get pay without too much worry. However, if you are working as a freelance photojournalist, some of the things this article mentioned will affect you.

This is also the reason I don't want to go into commercial photography.

http://petapixel.com/2012/10/29/18-facts-of-life-for-photography-students/