How can Junior'u choose the path of development in the field of IT?

Question

Career in IT

Hey! I love programming very much. As a child, I liked to formulate a problem and solve it step by step. A little later, I got acquainted with the pascal programming environment and practiced with my own invented tasks there. The tasks were very diverse, but they never involved mathematical calculations. In desktop programming schools, I lagged behind and got, to put it mildly, bad grades. I also failed the exam. Pascal has outlived its usefulness, and the calculation of Armstrong numbers, ordering blocks by 2 rows and 2 columns in a two-dimensional matrix repelled me and I did not see the point in this. It seemed to me that programming was not my thing. Then I forgot about it for two years and became interested in writing books, psychology and even conscious esotericism. But it is not important.
When I returned, I was interested in the .NET platform and I read a couple of books briefly (about data collection, simple operators (delegates, closures)), where mathematics is at a minimum. Yes, at the age of 17 I am very attracted to it. It would seem, stay further on your platform, but now I want to go to the web. After all, in addition to basic, I knew about layout. I like design, like on a toaster, oh, those flat icons... I like beautiful websites, I am not deprived of aesthetic taste and knowledge of modern UI. You can become a front-end developer, know layout and PL, but where is this taught? Our city is very small, I can't sign up for courses. Maybe there is specialized literature? Or you can take the back-end path, here is php, python, js ...
Then work. What to choose? What is more in demand? I will choose server php - it will turn out, as many say, a waste of time. js? Java? High threshold of entry. Maybe stay in C#? Unclear. So the question is tortured - desktop or web. This or that. What and where to study. I would like to have a minimum of mathematics.
Please do not now refer to age, chaotic presentation, possible errors (or maybe a completely stupid problem) and throwing stones - I specifically chose this service so that you can help me with this issue. I hope for your loyal help.

Answer 1

Learning, it seems to me, is best online, finding quality courses for sane money is a huge success, which is hardly worth counting on.
Regarding what to choose the very, most important criterion - so that you really like to do this for whole days, weeks and years, the salary is secondary. Because IT work is almost always largely creativity (albeit intellectual and technical), invention, which is impossible to do under duress. You can force yourself to chop wood, answer clients who come to you yourself, even treat people or solve math problems, but to deal with creative problems as "work for workers at work" "because you have to" then at least it is very unnerving if at all possible, so that you need to choose something that you will not get tired of very soon and from which you will not get tired.

Answer 2

Already answered more than once on the toaster
Where to go to study?

Answer 3

I can recommend the sorax channel (web development lessons) on YouTube I can learn one.
I know Delphi well, 6 years of experience.

Answer 4

Java.