So u are in 3D now? Actually nor matter what u doing, as long as u are in art industry, u will face this problem. The only option i can see which is good for money.

1) Joint production house, work your way up as a commercial director, good money, flexible timing, most of the time have to bullshit, very stress & mostly screw up live, charge per job.

2) Joint production house, work your way up as a DOP (Director of Photography), good money, flexible timing, not as stress as director & have good live, but require good technical knowledge and no bullshit, charge per job.

3) Joint advertising agency (Big one), work your way up as script writter, creative director or executive producer. Good money, not so flexible timing, stress & politics, bullshit & PR a lot, not so much on technical side, a lot of lubang to get more money (I cant tell u how)

4) Get in-touch with insider of goverment department. Get job for all major projects, very good money, very flexible timing, very not stress, bloody a lot of bullshit & PR, no need technical knowledge, and sometimes dont even need capital.

Above is few ways of making big money, u can easily earn more than 100K a month. A famous director can get 30 to 40K for a 2 days shoot, but more time is needed for pre-pro and post. A damn good DOP can get 10 to 20K in a 2 day shoots, and he only has to work for that 2 days, may be 1 day location survey. And no need to attend pre-pro or post that often. As for agency, its very hard to say how much u can get, may be ranging from 10 to 50K a month, some times more, depends how much lubang u got. The one that really make big money is to get all those goverment projects which will cost millions.

But mind u, all the options above are not easy to achive, but if u really got passion, go for it, and u will be rewarded. But I notice that too late, cant change anything now.