Photographic industry

Ive been really interested in photography for about 4 years now (im 17). I started with a casio exilim compact camera and then got a fuji s5600 bridge camera for christmas. I've basically taught myself everything I know. I did my AS level a year early, and ended up getting a higher mark then all the people in the year above. What really fucks me off is all the kids who get bought digital SLRS on a whim, without a shred of photographic knowledge and just end up using them on auto to take photos of their friends posing for myspace.

just get a cheap film SLR.

you can get a really really good one from next to nowt, while a digital equation would be quite expensive, and having learnt from using a film SLR, it´s a lots more useful to learn about photography than digital SLR (or any digital come to think about it)

Learn with film, then translate to digital (even thought you´ve taught yourself quite a handful).