My way how I became a web developer was a bit chaotic.
I started with 12 years to design my own pages with photoshop. They looked miserably but i was proud of them. Back then, I had a friend who was a really good programmer (or i thought it, can't really say something about his skills now) and he transformed my .ps files into templates for different CMSs.
After a while he told me, that he will go on tour as a concert pianist, so he will not be able to create my templates. I was really sad about it, and asked if he could show me how to do it my self.
He told me, that it was not so easy and he couldn't teach it to me in this short time, but he has a tool, with which i can get some viewable results.
In the tool you could load an image, slice it, and the tool would make a html template out of it.
That was my first contact witch html and later css.
Long time I did nothing else. I went to a technical school were we learned html and css (which i already knew already) and today I have to say... our teacher just read an online blog and had the smallest knowledge of the theme possible.
When i was in the 12. class I realised i was about to fail the school. So I left it, without a graduation and started to look for a job. No one wanted me, of course. Who wants a dude without graduation, who whants to be... a media designer. Jear, honestly. I wanted to be a media designer.
My father told me some day the the university had an open position as web developer (training). I applied for the position and because of a friend of a friend, i also got it.
I was so good at what I did, that my trainer offered me to shorten the trainee. So, after two and a half years I was a web developer.
When I think back it's really nice how everything played together. I never wanted to become a web developer. I wanted to work as an event manager, than as a system administrator, than as a media designer. But in the end, i got the right job and i couldn't be more happy about it... except i would be a youtuber, or a pro gamer... or a power ranger batman!