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So, you then?
What high school Year in scotland is Sixth form in England?
Yes, it's him his domain matches his username here.
On-topic: you are probably not going to find something like this at this point:
Sorry to crush your dreams, but it's the bitter truth. It's better to study for technical programming rather than end-user software, or something completely different.
The truth is there are too many IT clowns that have really 0 specialiaties and don't actually put some effort into finding what they're good at or effort into finding an original job.
You can start your own company in advice, hosting, services, software etc or just follow an education in an industry where IS ACTUALLY WORK IN.
Lol, so you're studying Computing at Sixth Form and doing VB.net, what exam board is that? Pretty sure that's not included as one of the allowed programming languages. The course is fairly tedious and slightly hard at times so I can see why you wouldn't want to do it. ;-)
If you are wondering how I know about Computing, it is because I'm doing it at my sixth form.
Take a look at Rackspace, you might have a small chance there although I think it's best to find smaller ISP's that might be wanting younger employees more.
I would have to disagree with that statement about not being able to find a job at this age, infact the opposite, I was offered one, not the best, but not the worst either. Of course I don't want to drop out of Sixth Form though, so I didn't carry on with that. I think we can agree that EconDC are clowns though, and that datacenter technician isn't the ideal or dream job even if it's 'cool' for now wages aren't great.
My personal honest advice would be to persevere at Sixth Form and do your hardest, you might not have much of a social life these two years but if you do well it'll open more doors than from your ill though out plan here. Whatever you do in any case don't make a hasty decision about it, and make sure it's not an impulsive decision.
hobby and work are two very different things. Best off staying in school.
Well, I say it's a hobby. Its something that I really like doing. I don't want to learn Visual Basic. I want to work on a support desk, manage servers etc....
I don't understand what attraction people see to this line of work. Unless you're making good money - which you won't unless you have unusual technical or business talents - it's crap work.
Staying in school is probably the best option for you. Engage with your course, work on your grammar and make a good university application when the time comes. The work might be equally dull at the moment but at least you'll be working towards something solid. If you have spare time, use some of it to pursue your real interests (by learning) and use that as part of your university application.
Migrate to India then
Edit: if you have a brain you can study for working for companies like say Supermicro to actually design servers in one way or another. As @jhadleu said you'll make breadcrumbs as just an ordinary technican.