It's great advice though. Webmastering can be a HUGE drain of time, as all hobbies should be. I have ideas of sites that might get that high, and I WISH I had the time. But working those sites will be too much of a time drain, and a steady job is more important. Now, if you're so young and smart enough to keep up your A, and your parents are rich, then you might have the leeway to ignore some of the stuff we just said.
Patience is the important thing here. Do your work sincerely and make your boss feel comfortable. Dont think of any 3rd rate ways to earn money in Internet. It will lead you to serious difficulties.
I definately think forums and content sites...or anything you can drive re-occuring traffic to will help you achieve those goals. That along with any form of viral marketing you can think of (tell-a-friend etc...) will bring you there slowly assuming you are passionate about what you do.
if you really want to do it you can, but you need to find the right partners...hows your networking skills?
If you put in 8 hours a day and only make $400-$600 a month you're doing something way wrong. I put maybe 1 hour a day in and made $500 last month.
I don't have any first hand experience, but I have read that the click-thru rate on forums is terrible.
You may not be one of the newbies, but your question was a newbie question that anybody with experience knows there is no definite answer to, and if anybody has that answer they aren't going to share it on this forum.
I would spend 100 hours developing a great system that will continuously generate new leads for me, then just sit back and watch the income flow in. (maybe not relax totally, just spend less then an hour a day). One example is Mike Filsaime's butterfly script, if you can't write any code then just buy his system.
Have a read of this Thread for lots of inspiration! http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=218905&goto=newpost
It's very inspiring to read about someone so young and driven already making money online. I have to give you credit for that. My suggestion would be to get into domaining. Get a handful of decent domains and develop them into sites. Dvelopment is key. Forums are a ton of work and aren't very profitable, especially starting from scratch.