What do you all do for your day jobs? Does it pay well juxtaposed to your writing?

TLDR: What do you all do for a living?

I'm 17 and just finished a 480,000-word first draft in about 1.5 years. I'm feeling good about that! (But it'll be hacked and edited to death, trust me.)

But the bigger point about being 17 is that I'm a sophomore in high school at the moment. I'm looking at colleges and careers, and all that other hub-a-bub, and none of it makes sense. Awsome! I suspect I'll be writing for a while, but I know I'll need a good day career so I can do what I want with my work, such as paying illustrators. So something that pays well or can pay well over time, I hope. I'm studying AP Microeconomics and AP U.S. Government, so we'll see where that can land me...but as I said, I do know nothing. I was looking at the careers of a lot of the more famous writers, and it looks like a lot of them were professors or teachers.

Most of all, I think I'm worried about the work/life balance. But I'm pretty swamped with work as a teenager, and I've still managed to write an hour or more at night, sometimes less, and I cranked out a hefty first draft from it. So it might not be as bad as I'm thinking. TLDR: What do you all do to support yourselves out there?