Become an astrophysicist?

Yes, an astrophysicist needs a PhD. There may be some jobs for those with master's degrees. If this is your passion, pursue as far as you can go with it.

If you're good at it, and love it, you will find some way to make a living at it, even as a guide or instructor at a planetarium. Keep going. New opportunities are opening all the time. You'll figure it out.

Since an astrophysicist is a research doctor, you must have a Ph.D. But that is just the beginning. Your entire career is spent in study and research, usually at a university and there are only approximately 6,500 in the world. You don't study to then go on and get a good job from the knowledge you've acquired, it's a life long exercise in academics.

There are very few jobs available, your likely to end up having to teach at a university, which requires a PhD. Certainly you have to be good at advanced math.

I have to believe you would tire of the star gazing eventually, studying a field with more practical engineering applications would provide more career options.

This physics journal site jobs article, names a couple of different titles but doesn't really detail what work one might do.

There is some applied physics in game design as one example.

http://www.physicstoday.org/jobs/profiles/astronom...

Got libraries where you live

Go spend some months reading and learning about careers and jobs that actually are in demand and pay good living income wherever you live.

It varies greatly.

as for astrophysicists spend some months learning about the process of getting education for the career.

Learn how to pay for the decade of school and Decades of Debts payments slavery b4 signing up for it.

Spend few years learning least u get burned by colleges myths hypes lies scams.

No one will ever ask for your IQ, for college or employment. In fact, it's illegal in the US. There's not a lot you can do in the field with only a masters degree; you could be a research assistant or teach at a community college, or teach part-time at a 4-year college or university (adjunct). Most of the jobs in the field require a PhD in astronomy, astrophysics, or physics.

Read this http://www.bls.gov/ooh/life-physical-and-social-sc... . Unlikely you could get a job with a masters.