I might be getting a job.

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I might consider myself lucky:

Right after I finished my "IT-website developing and databases" course (in 2 days I am getting my graduate proof) our local job center published an offer looking for people with exactly my newly learned skills required. They look for 2 people in one office for website scripts and databases - an employee and a part timer, both paying well better than I need (I'd be fine with just minimal wage and they pay 1,5 or 2x of the minimal wage).
I took the offers and apparently I am the only one who did for now(the offers are a few days old already) so I have a decent chance getting there. I am calling the company tomorrow to set a interview time. I will try getting the less paying, part timer position. The offer makes me suppose I might be able to work from home - its all about writing scripts, I can't see a reason to do it in office if I have my own computer right here. But if I end up with the full time its fine too. Although it sounds harder - with set time 40h/week they will probably want me to sit there 8h a day. The part time offer has an "order depended" in the work hours field so no I will probably able to set my own work hours.

I worry a lot though. I doubt my skills.
I may have finish the course with straight A one B and be the the best in my class. I might be smart enough to do my school homeworks and get some ideas that even surprise myself (such as finishing an apparently hard example within 15 seconds since teacher ordered it then saying "Done, its working" before anyone else even started)... But I still consider the PHP, Java Script and especially MySQL hard despite doing fine. Thanks to a imprecise MySQL teacher I developed a databases phobia... I hope working can cure me of it since databases are not that hard - I just find them complicated because the teacher was making every simple thing sound complicated due to too much theory, not enough practice.
I also wonder how good my school was and how good I actually am. There was only 11 people in my group and only 5 finished it so I doubt being the best of them means anything. It seems more like they joined the course because they had nothing better to do.The course was free.
I also doubt if I know enough to work in this field. I am not perfect yet, I know only the basics. I just finished the school...
And I also never worked before so I am anxious about the work environment and rules. And the office is in another city so I might have to move or use public transport. That scares me out.

The job seems really good and I might finally have a chance to become independent, especially since there probably won't be many competitors. But I am scared of the huge change and new responsibilities that are doomed to come if they let me in...

The fun part is I never considered working with databases and websites. I took the course because it is one of 3 parts of the bigger IT course (I am more about the "computer fixing" part but I decided I am going for the whole title because being real "IT specialist" sounds better than just "finished computer fixing course") but I was slacking off on this one - I just wanted to pass this part and forget. My good grades were like that just thanks to my fear of failure - I was learning not to get an A but out of fear that I won't pass if I don't learn. I was always surprised when we were doing examples or tests because I had no idea I learned so well.
But now, when I think about the job... It doesn't sounds that bad. It pays well and I might be able to do it. I am capable of perfecting the skills if I practice enough. It might be a decent career way.

Good luck! I hope you get it!

No luck this time - they need someone experienced.

But the job interview went well and they will contact me if they need some more workers - they plan to hire next 2-3 people once their project succeeds. For now it is just starting so they don't want to hire a newbie.

That's what they said.

I was told by a careers service that most entry jobs will teach you the basics of the programming languages you'll be using anyway, and what sort of syntax and method they want you to do it in aswell, so at the start they might give you specific instructions on a piece of paper in detail what you are meant to do to achieve the goal by the end of the day. I haven't worked in an office but most of these roles (assuming you take a full-time position) do take up to 7 hours, sometimes you have until lunch break and then they'd give you another task after lunch, and once they think you're experienced enough (give it a year or two) they might think you are suitable for a promotion from let's say you started out as a junior database developer/support, they'd move you up to a database developer or administrator and a few more years to a senior developer, this is all dependent on whether this job is right for you, in this field you have a lot of flexibility so you can move to different departments of IT as long as it ties into what you are good at, or you can start at the bottom again in a different career like many people do as they get bored of careers like this.

On the other hand you could ignore everything I just said as I have never worked in iT, i've only done a course in software development at college.