Or, you can choose to make your passion a career. There is often hard work and many years of little to no money, frustrations, pressure on other areas of your life, and more than likely, the thing that you originally had a passion for will become as much as chore as anything else, even if it's a chore you still enjoy.
I agree 100%, with me trying make my passion of art into a career I struggled for a long time trying to figure out how. Then I got into digital mediums and started working with graphic design and even then it wasn't easy. I spent 2 years working for almost free and building my contacts, now I easily put food on the table and pay my bills.
But working with web and graphic design works because there is a huge market for it.
If I was to try to turn snakes into my main source of income I could only imagine the many years of hard work with no profit I would have too put in. Right now I enjoy snakes purely as a hobby, yes money goes in and doesn't come back.... but that's just what hobbies are.
No one complains not being able to make money off their fishing hobby, or because their efforts in bike riding isn't landing them in the big time.
Enjoy your reptiles and have fun.... and don't quit you day job LMAO