Back when I had just turned 16, I started working my first professional job in my actual desired career field at the time in Broadcast Media. Starting doing live streaming for high school sporting events and etc for about 2 years with one company, drove around the state of MN was about 1k miles or so a month, gas reimbursed, $10 an hour with sometimes 11-12 hour days with drive time as well, it was a great job for my first real job in high school. Eventually I moved companies due to external circumstances and went to another that did pretty much the same thing but now I did independent contracting (essentially you are your own business and file your own taxes etc.) for X amount per event (I won't disclose how much but I could make a lot in one week alone).
Did that for another 2 years till I moved into college and that took more time that I couldn't stream at nights or whatnot, which sucks because I was making around $2k a month as a high school student and slowly into college. I then moved into a job at Wal-Mart of all places for a year and a half, now I left them back in September and work for Best Buy making great money at store level but doing actual IT work.
Put your mind to it, you can literally achieve anything you want to do lol, job qualifications aren't always followed to a T by many companies, however take note of the requirements and see what experience they want and see if you can relate things you have done even in your free time to it and maybe get a better paying job doing something more enjoyable.
