Why shouldn't you earn a living from your passion if you want? If we really stop to think about the meaning of life and purpose, it just makes sense to spend most of our time doing work we love, and to be able to profit from it.
Okay, so you may have to bite the "job-job" bullet at first. For any destination, there's the journey there first. We can't expect to arrive without taking the journey. Some destinations are farther and harder to reach, and yet, if we keep on going we will arrive.