Passion is essential if you want to turn it into the desired life riches.
Wealth is simply the result of a process by which we work diligently to transform the things we know and understand into the means of creating values that make us happy. I am not talking about the case of people who are lucky with gambling games to expect wealth, the original that I see it appearing in life is fairness, you do something useful, you will surely win get good results, and vice versa.
So in terms of passion, I think if any hobby work that we use well to match the development of society, it will bring achievements.