Year after year, my whole life's a wreck

[Wisemon]

Unless you're in a huge center, it's nigh impossible to make enough money to live on what you really want to be doing without doing other things to supplement it. Unfortunate, but that's kinda the way it is.

Even in a huge center, you need both talent and luck. That's why I became an engineer and not an English major. You keep the hobby as a hope. Maybe, just maybe, people will like your work enough to make it profitable, but you can't do it full-time. You can be stuck the rest of your life in the job you hate, but you can live on the hope.