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My best advise is to be prodigious in your personal work. Push the limits of your knowledge on every personal project, and work through road-blocks resulting from lack of knowledge with persistence and study. You're not learning if your not making mistakes. Make lots of mistakes, but most of all find out why things went wrong and what you could have done instead.
Study related fields, learn to paint and draw well.
If you can't get a job in design yet, get a job in sales - personal interaction and 'selling' your ideas is a big part of being a professional designer.
If you can get a job in design, shoot for one in a busy mid-sized office where you'll have the opportunity to touch a lot of projects, and learn on the job. Paying jobs have less room for mistakes, so it's important to have side projects that you can blow up spectacularly on.