IE6 is a necessary evil in some circumstances. You're young - you need to be flexible. Complaining won't help.

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Practical steps that could help:

Produce your standards compliant site. Then, to deal with IE quirks:

1. Ensure you've used a resets CSS script - level the ground before you start to build.

2. Serve separate CSS files for IE6/7/8 using conditional comments, which overrides any styling that requires IE specific workarounds.

3. Learn a handful of workarounds to deal with problems you might encounter.

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If you follow these three points, IE really won't be so much of a headache.

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And remember: [1]

(Follow the principles of progressive enhancement: [2])

[1] http://dowebsitesneedtolookexactlythesameineverybrowser.com/

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement