Acidpunk

Honestly like I said in another reply, I don't mind the well paid part at all.

In all honesty, Money is the last thing on my mind when it comes to becoming a developer, I literally have no interest in attaining wealth. As long as I have my basics and a roof over my head with internet I'm actually quite happy.

So I'm pretty much willing to start from the bottom and work my way up to whatever I can get, I have little interest in being paid well in the next five years so to speak.

What I do have more interest in is gaining good experience and practical skills that I can use and a good working environemnt.

I think as for the bottom end, honestly I just was looking at Javascript as a way into the industry. It's far from my preference of something to learn, Honestly I'd much rather spend time learning Python or Java but I need a way in.

Yeah putting the serious effort in isn't a problem, my love of all things computing attests to that. Spent the weekend installing arch and tweaking the hell out of it for no reason other than I found it the most fun I'd had in months.

I've looked into Codecademy for HTMl5+CSS+Javascript + Jquery and http://eloquentjavascript.net/index.html

I'm just afraid that I'll be looked down on with nothing but knowledge and lack of degrees I've always been told no degree = no job by parents / family / friends etc.

As for the companies that aren't sexy, honestly I couldn't care less what kind of company I worked for or for what salary at this point all I want is the practical experience to have something on my CV to say hey look I did this !