Quote Originally Posted by Flareboy323 View Post
I've been asking if I could get a job because I could do computer security, website design, or just server management or computer repair or something - stuff I enjoy and would do with or without pay.
If you're actually interested in that stuff I'd strongly suggest you pick it up as a hobby. Because like The UnIntelligible said, it's not like you can just walk in and pick up a job in those fields. Firms aren't going to hire you unless you know what you're doing (it's going to cost them too much time and energy to train you up). Otherwise I suppose you could pick it up as an internship.

For instance, I work as a backend PHP engineer/sysadmin (a job which I hate mind you), whilst studying at uni, but I've been doing this stuff since I was about 14. By the time I looked around for a job I already knew what I was doing.

I'd strongly suggest you brainstorm a project/something to build, and then:
1. Design it in photoshop
2. Code PSD -> HTML
3. Create the system in either PHP/Rails/Python
4. Deploy it on a server.

While it will no doubt be quite bad, I guarantee you'll learn a lot, and your second project will be a lot better (and then your third, etc.). Things like this also look great on a resume/college application.