Ask your friends for work. When I was growing up, few of my friends were helping with their family businesses, and some of those were IT related. These were my

Ask your friends for work. When I was growing up, few of my friends were helping with their family businesses, and some of those were IT related. These were my first jobs, like setting up a server for friends fathers business, or rewriting a perl-script to python for other friend (apart from cleaning up the lavatories in a small publishing house) You might have access to some sort of freelance-agreement. If I remember correctly, in my country (Czech republic) you can't legally work when less than 15 (you are legally required to be in school before that point), but after that you can enter certain freelance-agreements. No full-time employment, as far as I remember? And you might need some sort of confirmation that your legal guardian is OK with that? Another thing, RedHat started to have some sort of intern-ship/shool-project for high-school seniors. Not sure if that was only in Czech Republic though, but if you have a local corporation you'd like to work for, showing at their doors and asinkg for work might actually work :D I might want to wait for an open-house or something like that.