Without any programming experience & knowing that you're really just looking for something better than your current job, I would totally advise to start with Wo

Without any programming experience & knowing that you're really just looking for something better than your current job, I would totally advise to start with Wordpress. Learn to build websites in Wordpress. You can easily charge $1000 for a basic, responsive Wordpress website & you will find that there are a lot of family, friends etc that need/want websites built. This will also introduce you to some fundamentals of web development (deploying, communicating with a client etc & some PHP). Perhaps your first few websites you will have to charge less to build up your portfolio, but honestly, charging $500 in the early days for a website is going to be a lot better than working 50 hours for the same money at your current job. If you do actually want to be a web developer as your career (rather than a lifestyle job), learn an actual language. You will learn very basic PHP from Wordpress, but I would recommend Ruby as an actual programming language & Ruby on Rails (a Ruby framework) or Javascript as there is endless work there. Read a lot. Follow Hacker News & the tech sites to keep you motivated / interested. Sign up to one of the online education platforms (RailsCasts, Codeacademy, Treehouse etc).