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Can I turn my Hobby into a Business?

A few days back I stumbled across an article about an Australian wildlife photographer Alex Cearn, who previously worked in counter-terrorism. In 2007, she borrowed an SLR camera from a friend. Inspired, she bought a digital camera for herself and began her journey by learning about photography from newspapers and magazines. She taught herself through endless practice, and eventually left her full-time job to pursue photography as a career. Now she has her own business that focusses on animal portraiture! This is just one of those inspiring stories that make most of us wonder: What am I doing with my life? Am I content with my job and/or what I am studying? Is money more important than my happiness? And if it is, can I not earn money by doing something I love instead of doing something that society expects me to do? Research shows that majority of the people pay attention to only two factors while choosing a career for themselves: Money and the ease of work, which means that ...