The characters in all of the games are around 10 years old, and most of the people you face in battles are also about kids or teenagers. There are still a few adults who usually are in the big leagues like tournament champs or gym leaders but even many of them are more like young adults than anything. Do Pokemon trainers spend their whole childhoods training Pokemon then just get it out of their system and move on? Is training Pokemon seen as a child’s hobby/life style?
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Because being a trainer is like being a professional athlete or a rock star. It’s not realistic for most people to make money dogfighting their pets.
You’ll notice plenty of people with real jobs in the pokemon universe. Nurses, store owners, boat operators, professors, even mafia members. These people are actually contributing members of society, unlike these pokemon trainers.