Using trading as your main place to get money from to cover all your needs isn't going to work. The market doesn't favour you always as a trader, there's going to be times when you won't be able to win. The market isn't stable and won't give you one result always therefore you shouldn't be depending on trading. If you trade and make a money, it can be used for other businesses that you can depend on. All professional traders have other side businesses

But I think traders are employed as they're earning money from when they trade, there earning are not constant as other individuals that might be working for a privacy business or the government but they can be earning more than those other individual that you would say they're employed. A trader can make money from few trade that he can use for the rest of the month.