Who does photography as a career?

[darreny]

My wife is considering a career change and has always enjoyed photography. She's due to start maternity leave soon and doesn't really want to go back after so we were talking about her maybe do portrait, more specifically children and new born. Now I know this is a saturated market, I know someone that does it and they didnt even know what camera they use and I'm not just talking model, brand too. So I was thinking about out and about shots and find good locations. I live in the Peak District so there a loads.
What are the ups and downs to this? What are the ways of maximising profit.

We have a Canon 70d and Sony rx100 mk1 atm so not strangers to photography it's the business we need to learn about.

Any help greatly appreciated

 

[darreny]

Thanks for the input.

She is a teacher atm working 26 miles away so a change of school would be on the cards anyway as with the long hours teachers already do plus the travelling time she doesn't get a lot of free time as it is. She didn't ask me to help and the photography side isn't the problem it's the business side and what the best model is. It's not something she's set her mind on just something we're considering for her to have a change of career.