"should i pursue chess as a professional career?" ++ No
"do i have the potential to be great?" ++ No
Here is an example of somebody with Yes, Yes:
https://ratings.fide.com/profile/44599790
should i pursue chess as a professional career? do i have the potential to be great?
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i agree on this but my family is already quite rich. i play 15+10 rapid but i am better on even longer time controls and worser on fast time controls. so i am actually a classical player. i just thought like could it be? i mean if i can be a 2700 rated player potentially money isn't an issue my family can provide it.
"Professional" to most people means that the person is making a enough money from that activity to be able to spend a lot of time on it, become good at it, and making a living from it. Spending a lot of time on it, becoming good at it, but not making enough to support yourself but relying instead on your family's wealth is generally not considered "professional".
As mentioned previously in this thread, though, only a handful of chess players are truly "professional" players. Everyone else is doing other things to make ends meet and spending as much time as they can afford on their passion for chess. Technically I suppose that means that most of them are "semi-professional" at best.
You'll find that your rate of improvement will plateau over time: most people will have a sharp increaase in their rating when they first start taking the game seriously and studying: if you get a coach, that will also probably led to another strong increase in rating, but after a certain point it's going to plateau. But after coaching you for a while, that coach will be the person best placed to give you an accurate opinion as to whether you can reach the level you want to reach in the game rather than a bunch of anonymous, faceless and probably trolls here on chess.com