(This is intended as just another idea to think about) The long-term passion and commitment come after some level of success, not before. Steve Jobs didn't dr

(This is intended as just another idea to think about) The long-term passion and commitment come after some level of success, not before. Steve Jobs didn't dream of dedicating his life to Personal Computing. It was his early successes that fed into his self-image and a feeling that it was what he was meant to do. Maybe you need to find the right project. Turn your weakness into a strength by publicly launching a new project every week. A new mobile app, web site, screencast, open source project, whatever. They don't have to be good, just a bit useful. Make things that you want and try to give them away and/or sell them to other people. There are a lot of ways to make a living as a skilled programmer. Most people have trouble finding the right kind of project, and that's mostly because they don't iterate quickly enough.