You must have heard this: Jack of all, master of none! Money comes to the masters. So try to master a few topics, and find those topics that could make you money easily. Then go make a career out of it.
Try focusing on topics that can earn you money (and fame). Like commercial designs, advertisements, products, lighting, and make some before|after images so that you have a good pro-looking portfolio to show. Of course try other things too, and YT etc platforms are full of those techniques. Free too!
I am doing PS CC now, and it has opened new amazing avenues for me! I never thought that so much could be achieved and so easily... But for a newbie, I would like to stress the importance of visualization. When you see a commercial on a TV for example, your mind automatically picks up some of the great images that flash by. Your artistic part of the mind notices how some components are used to highlight something in the main product's background, you get interested in them, and then you begin learning how to create those things may be in PS. Such minor details make your designs look better and pro-quality. The backlighting, fill lighting, flash lighting, other such forms of light and shade playing across the image makes it look quite different than a bland flat image of the same product. Then you think of the different colors used, and also think how creatively those colors are used, and why they are used there... then, the way the product is displayed, how the words are used, audio, the motion... how the camera leads you to th subect and how long it keeps you there before moving to the next selling point... so, there are so many things going on there. But your mind picks up one aspect -- eg. the light used or the colors, in almost a second, and then you hold the image while you try to reproduce it in PS... Getting my point? You become a pro by putting yourself fully into it, and then create a great
work of art. Then you try more things in your own unique way. This way you begin to build a good grraphical portfolio.
Now you're doubting your ability because you aren't trying those kind of visualizations and improvisations. But when you earn say $15-20 per hour, or even $50~75 per hour, and when you will have lots of projects, you'll laugh then! But you need to practice and become different from the others.
Have you got an eye for photgraphy? Can yo visualize depths and perspectives? Can you visualize a simple product in different lights and shades, and in differrent colors and environments? Can you mind see those normal
things differently? Can you just hold any item and build an advertisement campaign, however crudely at this stage, in your mind and hold it there so that you can try PS o it? Of course you'll need to visualize, and then those ads in TV will come handy. Those are the add-ons that you will use initially in your designs. Make the simple item pop-up. These sample will help you get clients later.
What do you like more? Scenery? Portraits? Products? whatever? Look for any commercial spects and find if there are jobs being put up for those topics, and how much money is offered. Build different sets of portfolios if required and use them selectively.
Can you easily visualize? You can't develop those artistic capabilities if you are not made for it, but if there are traces and you use day-to-day examples that are being thrown at you round the clock as on TV, then you can really build up a career in graphics, PS-centric too. Learn the basics fast, and go advanced and specific minutely. Building a graphics-based career takes time and patience, and of course it takes the liking for the work which requires very hard work... at least initially?
If you do so, then $15 per day won't be so difficult task for you imo.
All this may look very abstract to you at thise stage. But you need to find yourself what path to take. Build some thing (you may have a collection of themes) and show that portfolio to an expert. You may be lot better guided towards your career then. At this point, we can only give you an abstract outline to help you though.
Have you created any such "artworks", so that someone whom you can trust either here on any other place can guide you a little better?
