Making money from photography

If photography’s to be a creative outlet and perhaps make money, what do I need to do? I suppose there’s the aspect of understanding that creativity and money making don’t always go hand in hand - often the money-making turns the creative activity instead into an assembly line. Consider the ides of making stock photos - make a studio environment (sheet on chair, lighting, tripod, trigger), then arrange the items and take photos one after another, then edit and post with metadata. Pretty well devoid of artistry, if a level of throughput (a very assembly line work if ever there were one) is required. Could I do that? Yes. Repeatedly? I’d want to know it’s worthwhile, so I’d need some fish to bite before too many more sessions.