Should you do something that you love or something that pays you well ?

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Well I have left university ten years ago with a degree in Electronis and Chemistry and up to this point the closest that I have come to getting a job in my area of expetise is a teaching job where I taught chemistry for a year in a High School. My struggle has been so intense to find a job which is in accordance with my studies so much so that I have had to settle for a job as a junior cartogarpher in order to pay the bills and beleiev it just pays the bills because this isnt exactly my area of study .These are however good days, as there were days (years even ) when I didnt even have a job and I would leave out of my house and just walk around the town knocking on the doors of business places and handing them resumes.Ver few of these resumes were even acknowledged .Since I left university I have tried to change my perspective by trying my hand at different things ranging from poetry, music (I really cant sing) ,investing (stock and money market)and even foreign currency trading and even but to no avail.It seems that in order to get a job that pays well you have to know someone high up the corporate ladder or know someone who knows someone high up. I am thinking now that when I have my children I am going to encourage them to do what pays and not what they love in order to prevent them from going through what I went through.In retrospect ,maybe if i had listened to my mother who begged me to do Pharmacy but noo not me I love chemistry, I want to be a chemist.On my pompous thrne then. I felt that pharmacist was a job beneath me and now I see my other friends who are now pharmacists and doing much better than I am and I look on with much regret.