I've come to believe that the most important thing is to chase your dreams. Do what you love. It may or may not be financially lucrative, but happiness is more important and there are almost always ways to get by. I've chased two major dreams in my 60+ years, the first to be a scientist/physicist and ended up with an Electrical/Engineering Computer Science degree and career after abandoning a psychology degree. I'm now chasing a writing/poetry dream which I've working on part-time for several decades and am now early retired and chasing it full-time. - it's Joni Mitchell's birthday) but in some ways I wish I'd recognized my desire to pursue literature earlier. We each do what we can.