How to pursue my desired career?

When I grow up I want to be a photographer but like one for magazines and stuff, like vogue or paper. I know I would have to go to photography school, right? I just want to know what to do after all that. I would have to make a portfolio, right? And should I start now? I take pictures on my acaltel phone and I edit them and stuff, I have an Instagram. I kind of wish I had an iPhone or a nice camera to take better pictures. Anyway, how should I do all this is a break down? I'm a sophomore in high school and I'm looking for a job right now to raise up money for a camera.

Get a camera and practice. Study art, composition, color theory, and get a lot of experience with your equipment and how things like lenses, filters, lighting, etc. All affect the composition of the photo. While you're doing that, you just… Practice. A lot.

See if you can get an internship with a local photo studio through your school.

This experience will give you an excellent first step toward your goal and let you into a real world view of photography as a career.

What you need to know is that "photographers", get as much right in the camera so that they do NOT later have to fix things by retouching. You will learn this and more by working in a studio as well as understanding the way a photographic business is run

I'll give you some good advice - half of art is knowing how to make art. In your case it's photography so that means how to use cameras and do post processing of all sorts. You learn that in school or start with reading books. The other half of art is WHAT you draw, paint or photograph. And in photography that includes light and shadow and mood and angles. That's harder to learn but school can also help with that. I'd suggest you start looking up famous photographers to see their pictures - much of that who and what and how, more than how the camera works. Knowing how to push the shutter button is just the beginning.

Being rich works most of the time.