GL
A lot of people here are telling you to play recreationally. As far as I'm concerned, if poker is your dream, then go for it. There is, however, some merit in having secondary sources of income. Having a side source of income smoothes out the downswings and makes it easier to take a break
especially if you can get some passive income.
For example, life "ran bad" for me and I just had to take a month off from poker to take care of very serious non-financial matters. If this had happened to me when I was only playing poker for a living I would have had to deal with the additional stress of not having any income for a month. I still play professionally, but now that I have some sources of side income, I could take care of things without having to sweat a complete loss of income for a month.
Having secondary sources of income is something I wish I had caught on to earlier in my poker career. And shit, even
Knish had the truck