Any job becomes work. Working as a pro can be enjoyable if you can have some control and artistic input. When I have worked full time as a photographer expectations and controls always made most picture taking boring and repetitive.
I learned to dislike weddings working as a wedding photographer. There are only so many ways to take a picture of the Mayor shaking hands I discovered a news photog, and about half of those will not fly with the editor. Working as a news photographer was often fun and definitely better than a real job but I hardly took a picture for years after leaving that vocation. As far as talent and success go, they have little to do with each other. If you can take well exposed and focused images (not hard these days) you can be a success if you are good at self promotion and marketing. my $0.02 Cdn Powell
