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Then provisioning and maintaining any popular sites would be your job.
You'd build an impressive portfolio and have a bunch of assets that you could sell or charge for if you ever wanted to.
Inventing something that didn't exist before and helping it to gain popularity can be pretty exciting as you see the progress over a longer term as opposed to building a site and handing it over once it's done.
Start a couple of sites of your own, you'll find out there's more to learn than just programming languages.
You can get paid lots of money for the opportunity to learn a whole lot more working with companies to test their networks, computers and webservers against attacks. Set up a side business just like you have with DanielsWebsites.com, to focus on vulnerabilities. The goal is to not be a small player in a huge pond of similar businesses. Avoid becoming a commodity.
Aside from technology learning, continue working on your English writing and reading skills, maths and socialization skills (meet and keep the right friends). Develop good habits of not being content or lazy. Always move forward and up, give your body to relax, rest and recharge. Give up wordpress (you're right, its too easy) and challenge yourself constantly, learn Rails or Python and see a new idea into reality.
Keep at it. You may wish to charge more (more professional, etc) and emphasise less on age though because you'll definitely face youthism. Especially where the law frowns upon child labour. Also, the government will refuse to allow you to form your own company until you're 18. You may want to consider alternative sources of revenue such as odesk, etc. Contracting work and more. But sadly, don't look for a job for rea…
Just think about what you would want (maybe for a hobby or interest) or what other users would want, build and either sell it or in the more hacker style give it away for free.
Keep at it. You may wish to charge more (more professional, etc) and emphasise less on age though because you'll definitely face youthism. Especially where the law frowns upon child labour. Also, the government will refuse to allow you to form your own company until you're 18. You may want to consider alternative sources of revenue such as odesk, etc. Contracting work and more. But sadly, don't look for a job for rea…
I'd argue that you should abuse your young age for press though. Press loves a story about how a young person is succeeding, it's a USP to them. Use it whilst you can!
If you want to be taken seriously, don't tell people that you're "too lazy"
Anyway, if you've got a mac (or hackintosh...) and an iphone or itouch, you could make iphone games?
Make sure you hit up the local meetup scene. RORO, SydJS, and Cocoaheads are a good start.