Hi Guy
I would advise you to get an offline job, where you can earn a proper income for the time you actually work. I am not an IM Pro, just started one year ago, so I am a Newbie, and I can tell you from my experience, you cannot earn money easily without blackhat technique. If you stay White hat, it is with any other real business as well, it takes up to 4 years continuously working to get a business running. (Online or Offline - no difference). And you do not get paid the hours you put in, in your first years - no way. I started one year ago selling over the internet, but do you know - only the baskets where I put in self created products make decent money. No affilate makes money, adsense hardly any, only the ones where I created products make me about 300 US$ a month, after investing 1 year of work (no blackhat, ok a little bit greyish).
Wish you the best - get a paid job.