Pitfalls to avoid when trying to buy a house

Hello out there!
so like a lot of people, I had an idea of what I wanted to do with my life, an idea of a career path, and things went a different direction.  I graduated with a degree in English and a minor in Spanish, thinking that I was being practical and forward-thinking, and went on the literature/writing track rather than just literature.  I was hoping to be a writer, but after graduation student loans came a knocking.

So, I got a job about a month after graduation in finance.  I've been working for 19 years in some form of sales, finance, customer service, etc.--and once you get in, it's hard to get out!  I cannot imagine how to derail this train and what to do.

Also, I just finished watching Julie & Julia on Netflix, and here we are.  I bought a domain name and I'm going to see if in some roundabout way this leads to a movie deal.  I mean, I am in LA.

But honestly this is something to do for fun on the side, and if I can push this into a side hustle, then cool.

I feel like there's a lot of information that I can potentially share from inadvertently becoming a wealthy financial genius, and being an old millenial, maybe somebody will read this and think it's useful or enjoyable.  Or, I'm shouting into the Internet Void.  Either way.