I don't know if this will help, but the best way to become a professional programmer is to have a gun to your head; not literally of course. Deadlines, money, p

I don't know if this will help, but the best way to become a professional programmer is to have a gun to your head; not literally of course. Deadlines, money, pressure and more complexity than you're comfortable with have a way of focusing the mind. A love of building complex things out of virtually nothing helps too. Forget web development, build a product if you've got it in you. Otherwise there's plenty of other things to do out there.