How to understand whether it is worth going into IT / testing?

Question

Software testing

Background: age under 30, education - higher education in applied mathematics, never worked in IT (the last time I wrote programs at the university, I don’t remember anything), work experience is mixed and not solid in different applied areas (finance, logistics , primitive analytics)
Desire: to gain a foothold in one professional field, to work and make good money, build a career
Idea: to go to work in IT / testing
Question : how to understand whether it is worth going into this area?
The limit on "trying out" has, in general, already been exhausted (not a student or a graduate for a long time), so if you take on the development of the profession of a tester, you must go to the end, otherwise you should not take it at all
I read Savin's "Dot Com Testing", I read forums / manuals - the sensations are strange. On the one hand, it seems not very difficult, you can figure it out. On the other hand, nothing in the soul responds.
The same Savin writes that, like, you should almost have a dream of becoming a tester. If I don’t have such a dream (my dreams are not related to work at all), so should I definitely not apply here?
Sorry for the chaotic presentation, but I hope I got the point across.
Give me feedback, give me brains.
I especially ask those who have been working in IT / testing for a long time, and in whose eyes many newcomers came not green students / graduates, but already mature people from other professional areas.

Answer 1

The dream should be in any field, as they say... Only now programmers are becoming those who simply believe that there is "a lot of dough", without any dream.
And did your mom and dad become who they wanted because of a dream or because you had to be fed? I now see that only 5% become what they want, and then in the process they can lose faith in this.
A tester is the easiest way to higher paying professions. Those who want to enter the IT profession go as a tester. They don't like it at all. Just a quick start.
If you want to change your life and connect it with IT, go work as a tester in a large company and from there move in the direction you like. I personally don't know testers at 40. All leave in a year or two in other directions. Who are progers, who are managers.

Answer 2

you should almost have a dream of becoming a tester

These are very correct words. Since testing is a lot of monotonous work on finding, reproducing and documenting defects. This needs to be lived.