Your comment is exactly what you'd expect from someone who has never played EVE. Scanning is only 5% of what EVE is all about, so you can play for years without even giving it a try.

Scanning can be fun, I do it and find it fun. Doing hacking, salvaging and Archaeology sites is a complete wast of time in my opinion. I've never managed to make more than a few mil from them.

And just in case your wondering, I only scan low sec space from 0.3 to 0.1 and still never made any good isk from them.

Most money is in WH and some good plexes.