I used to do a few paying jobs and i still do on occasion. But i hate it, i can make more money with the hours of BS you go through doing a shoot at somthing else.

Photography has everyone and their brother in the industry. The motorsports industry is littered with great photographers, so in my mind there is no sense getting into that industry. Just this site alone has at least a half dozen talented photographers.

Find a niche that is not the norm, a industry you dont know anything about. Or be like the rest of us and realize its fun, but not worth trying to make a living on.

take your photography skills and toss in some CS clasess and try getting an intership with the local police force doing CSI. Pays well, and no post processing photos (waahooo). haha, just a sugestion.

Bottom line, economics 101: in an industry thats easy to enter, competition will drive profits down to nothing. And thats exactly what photography is.

Sorry if i have a gloomy outlook, its just my opinion