How not to become a professional horse trainer?

I was born in Budapest, Hungary. I started to ride horses when I was about 9 years old and by the time I was 10 I was pretty sure that I want to do nothing else but ride horses in my entire life. Therefore I went to learn Agriculture to the University of Szeged. During the collage years I was training the horses of the school which gave me great freedom as long as I passed my exams and the horses were sold. It was a great life. It hardly bothered me that I was from the capital city, we had no lands, no money and I was not really interested in Farming economy. I just wanted to ride horses. I passed my exams with flying colors and simultaneously I finished my horse riding instructor exam in University of Pecs sport faculty. I also finished a number of judge exams and even a trail riding exam.

It was that trail riding exam which opened my eyes. We students set together to chit-chat every night. It was a very interesting group. There were people from different part of the country, they were from different age groups and with different education level. So when I started to repeat again that I would like to do nothing else in life but ride horses, one of the guys asked: oh really? And would you like to ride your own horse? I said yes, of course this is my main goal. Then he said: Ok, then you have two ways to go.

Option one: you work somewhere with horses, get a very low salary and you will rarely get a day off. You will buy a horse but you will never get money enough to be safe with your horse. You will move from barn to barn and life will just not get easier except if you get lucky and marry to a reach guy or you move to an other country and you will show such an exceptional talent...

Option two: you forget horses for the coming 10 years. You work your ass off in a profession which has not much to do with horses but you can earn enough money to buy a horse after 10 years and you will even have time to ride it. 

Now which option sounds better? Because I do not see any other possibilities...
Ooops... I was hurt badly. My dreams were kind of smashed. However, this conversation made me think about my future.

I went back to the agrarian university to pass my finals and write my thesis. I was thinking hard. After a while I decided to choose option two. I wanted to have a safe, non-challenging life.
As a start I chose my thesis to avoid anything even coming close to horses or farming. I found a tiny subject in the mini Ecology encyclopedia: Environment psychology. It was a broad unknown subject with no literature that time. Therefore I could let my fantasy fly, I started to read a big bunch of books and on the basis of my reading I wrote my thesis with the hope that the subject will be accepted by the school even if it has nothing to do with growth hormones. I got lucky. It was not just accepted but it was the best thesis of the year. A year later my subject got it's own faculty in the Education and Psychology University of Budapest (ELTE). 

My thesis was the first thing I chose to lean away from my original path. And this is how I did not become a professional horse trainer.