Originally Posted by Tantrixxx

Do yourself a favor and go to school to learn a real trade and career.... Web design is going to get you no where. There's no money in being a web designer. Anyone who says otherwise is just trying to sell something.

Even if you get employed full time to a salary position you'll still never make much as a web designer.

One of my buddies used to do web design back in 1999. He quit a few years back after all his clients dried up and moved on to other things.

Now he's making 70 grand a year as an RN, full benefits.. 100% secure job....... try doing that freelancing in web design...

And with the proliferation of do-it-your-self design progs popping up like mad.. people won't even need designers anymore in the near future. Not to mention how web savvy the new generation is.. they just build their own stuff. One of my friends sons (12 years old) built his fathers company website...