It would be alot harder to get into cutting edge projects in todays industry cause the big guys have stuff they arent about to show just yet. Case in point when pro exotics had their fire i remember them saying they lost alot of one of kind animals and i cant even imagine what those were. My advice for anyone would be to work with the animals you yourself likes and worry bout the money second. Hey one of my favorite all time animals is the bumblebee. I love that animal. I always breed them and i dont care if they only sell for 20 bucks. I think they are cool. But i still have alot of overhead to account for over the year so i have to also breed animals i can sell for good money. The problem we are gonna have soon is that we are going to have so many genes stacked in an animal we wont know what the hell is in the offspring or how to reproduce it. Its gonna be like workin with poss hets on everything lol