When I was a kid I wanted to be a glamour photographer. Then I got an apprenticeship to a glamour photographer and met some model wanna-bes. The actual models were all cool. I met some very beautiful, very nice young women. It was the wanna-be models, who were also very beautiful but not so nice. What was surprising to me is how normal the most successful models looked when they came in. Most of them had their hair in a pony tail and wearing sweats. No makeup either. While "normal", you couldn't take your eyes off of them because every one of them had what my gram would have called "carriage."
The wanna-bes. No "carriage." They came in prettied up and squawked like a parrot when the hairdresser or makeup artist wanted to change something. The wanna-bes also liked to blame their lack of success out on the photographer, despite not being able to critique the shots to say what it is they wanted them to do better. The models could. The models could also tell the photographers what their clients wanted, or if the client was present he/she could say himself/herself. Then it was up to the photographer to produce it. The guy who I worked for had a small studio and simple equipment in an old building, but he really knew how to use it all to good effect. The nicest room in the joint was the dressing room. He was a 70+ year old squat man with a twinkle in his eye, a spring in his step, was usually enveloped in a cloud of Captain Black pipe tobacco smoke, and could get away with calling all the young women "Missy" and somehow still making them feel special. Anyway, I gave up on glamour photography. I was a good glamour photographer's assistant, but not a good glamour photographer. I just didn't have the people skills. Then I wanted to get into wildlife photography or sports photography. I did get some sports opportunities, like all-state football games, regional amateur tennis tournaments and the like. It was fun, but really really nervewracking. I needed much better equipment than I could afford. I worked too many hours to get time in the field for trying to break into wildlife photography, and again there was the limit of equipment. Then I wanted to be a musician and got a paying gig. It stunk. Got some good stories from it, and as a young man you'd think the too hot break room where actresses disrobed to cool off would have been exciting (and sometimes was) but wasn't near as often as you'd expect. Plus, there were a lot of things going on at cast parties that I did not want any part of. So my photography and my music are now hobbies. They keep a smile on my face. I enjoy my work, but I wouldn't ever confuse it for entertainment. For me, that works out just fine.