I always knew I wanted to major in something computer related.
Programming was my first choice, but I've been drifting away from that, it just didn't click with me. Web design is what I've been doing for a while.

I' m 14 and I started experimenting with html/css at around age 10. I'm getting more serious into xhtml, using a bunch of tutorials for it right now. I enjoy working with xhtml / css / php/mysql.

Is web design a promising field? Salary wise? Experience from current web designers? :/

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To be honest, there's not a lot of money to be made in web design. Web design businesses are ten-a-penny, and only the ones that have been around since before the .com boom have really made it. Plus, with many companies that are starting to outsource their web design to countries like India, finding a web design job won't get any easier.
There is, however quite a bit of money to be made in jobs such related to sysadmin work and network installations.

The best thing for you to do right now would be to simply get good grades all round at school. Colleges and universities look at how well you have done in all subjects, as well as just technology ones. Also, just keep learning more about computers. Use Linux as well as Windows [if you don't already do so] and just read up on things. It's surprising how much you can pick up.

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Thanks for the fast reply

At the moment I only having experience with Windows OSes and a little Mac OS X and Ubuntu. I'm thinking about dual booting my pc, if that would help me out with experience.

What do sysadmin and network installation jobs entail?

I am familiar with Windows OSes and heard a bit about Mac OS X, but what is Ubuntu?

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Seldom,

Getting into system administration / networking is really ideal as it's almost impossible to outsource. For example, you could be setting up servers for a company, managing user accounts, and that sort of thing. Something like web design can easily be done remotely, but handling the hardware installations at a site is much more difficult to outsource (thus, job security).

just as an extra to that, I have been doing web design now for quite I few years, I started when I was about your age, although the tech wasn't quite the same back then I went down the graphics side of things, its good that you are doing coding, it brings in more money and stable jobs, but, I have found that alot of the coders I work with don't do graphics, your still young now, if you don't already, Use photoshop mate, you will be like web gold, alot of coders I know don't seam to know how to make nice looking web pages, also look into flash and php working together, its powerful for high content high movement.

Seldom,
If you are looking for side money as you go through high school and college, I think web design is a good idea. You can work at your own pace. You can try to find local businesses that have crappy sites, and send them an email letting them know so. If you are somewhat into programming, take a look at a JSP book, there is a lot of neat things you can do using java within a web page.