Install SQL Server Dev Edidtion at work, get the book(s) and start making little projects. Spent 3-6 months on that. Once you achieve some level of confidence, you might want to go and talk to some of your friends in the IT dept and offer them your help. It also could be some of the reporting help. People who knows business side and have dev skills are very valuable. But you have to be persistent and it will take some time....