I love writing and have thought about trying to become a childrens writer but this is not very practical to live on. Does anybody know of any careers in writing that may suite me, other than journalism?

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Technical writing. It pays well but it will kill your soul. There's nothing that says you can't keep a day job and write at night. Even if you only manage three pages a night, that's ninety pages in about a month. Put three of those together and you've got a first draft. Writing as a career isn't stable. It's why many are called and few are chosen. It takes a thick skin and a certain disregard for your own comfort to succeed in any art form, writing most of all. I had a family member ask me if writing was therapeutic for me. "When the cheque clears," I answered. "Otherwise it's just a job." See I'm a screenwriter. When I'm working, there's a whole host of people who rely on the work from the Executive Producer to the lowliest grip (who still gets more respect than the writer). All that money and all that work stems from the screenplay I wrote or adapted. It has fun moments but bottom line, it's a job. Sometimes it pays well, sometimes, not so well. The real question here is what are you willing to sacrifice to achieve your goal? Time? A social life? Respect? All of the above?

Do like working with children? Have you thought of a teaching career, maybe as a creative writing teacher? That job may be hard to find, but there's a creative writing teacher at my high school, so I know the job exists. :)