>>4311872As a 29 year old who owns multiple businesses across 5 different industries (and as someone who likes to waste free time shitposting and doing photography) I will stop you right here to tell you that photography is, first and foremost, an art form - and turning something that is supposed to be art, in this case photography, into a simple trade job that will earn you money, comes with a myriad of nonsensical garbage you will additionally have to improve on, obtain and/or learn, in addition to having to deal with the main problem of learning, gaining experience and improving on your photography. Turning art into a trade business and chasing money with it, always means you will not be able to fully focus on both sides of things and one will always have to suffer. You just don't have the mental capacity or time to do so (provided you are a human being and do waste 6-9 hours of your day on sleep), you will have to sacrifice the art side of things in order to chase money.
You will eventually find out that doing street photography as your primary (or secondary, or even tertiary) source of income is not worth the time or effort invested and will (only if you're lucky! - keep in mind!) barely bring in enough money to push you through life from month to month, which is a sad reality for close to 100% of street photographers who jump into this mess, thinking they will make a living off it, before knowing or being aware of everything that goes on behind the curtain... Anyhow, to keep it brief, street photography focuses too much on art side of things - and sadly, visual arts do not sell nowadays!
That's where fields like weddings, baptisms, pets, architecture/real estate, commercial, journalism and other similar photography fields come in... These and similar fields focus way more on profiteering, marketing and business side of things and if you want to lead an, not fancy but an above average lifestyle, then that's what you want to be doing - not street photography.
