Perhaps unkind, but unless you are absolutely driven to be a pro snapper, which to me can't avoid the genre that makes you feel like that, you are wasting your time.
Sharon touches on wedding people; in my time, much as Joe suggests about today, wedding photographers and high street snappers as a bunch doing hatches, matches and dispatches didn't rate on the advertising agency radar. You had to hang out your shingle as an advertising photographer, which might or might not include a fashion photographer.
If you first chase the money, forget it. You have to chase the dream, and then, only then, if it's viable, the money follows. Putting money first is fatal for your soul and without soul, why try to make it in one of the arts, or at least, quasi-arts?
You have to have the mindset for this game, and asking around isn't a route: you just gotta do it; cut the umbilical and try 100%. In my own case, already an employed photographer, I had to find the wherewithal to support self, wife and two kids first, for at least six months with zero coming in. In the U.K., many advertising agencies would only pay on the third month following month of invoice. Cool.
Rob