Kupo, i am a web desigener/developer. I am currently working in the field but its been hard stabilizing a career. Most jobs in this area are contract and long term is difficult to think about. I have been out of college about 3 years now and out of my class of about 25, very few have been able to get jobs in this field. This was a post-grad course so we all have degrees to back up our certificates as well. My suggestion to you is this. Go into some kind of database administration or some kind of IT specialist where you will be an expert in large-scale system analysis and design, business application services and project leadership in web application development and management. (i just grabbed that from a job spec that came in this morning). I see many IT jobs which myself, as good as i am in computers, lack the knowledge to get into the filed. Something like J2EE, websphere, .NET. That should help you int he future.