Odds of Getting In
This career is a long shot for you. There are maybe 21,000 camera operators in the United States; that covers the movie industry as well as television broadcasting. And brace yourself for some bad news: This field isn't growing, thanks to advances in technology.
Maybe you've watched a basketball game that includes images taken from just above the hoop, so you get an up-close-and-personal shot of the ball swishing through the net. There's no sports camera operator perched atop the backboard. Instead, you get to see the nubs on the ball courtesy of a robotic camera.
Robotic cameras are operated by computers that are programmed to note the movement and direction of the action during the game; the cameras then adjust their angle accordingly.
While these marvels of machinery provide video from all sorts of new and weird angles for the benefit of the TV audience, they're bad for camera operators: If a robotic camera can handle filming from the backboard, why can't it handle filming from a camera normally manned by a human?
In other words, congratulations, you get to compete with Skynet for work.