I feel similarly. I studied art in school-my degree is in fine art, with an area of focus on design. I spent a lot of time after I graduated working as a frustr

I feel similarly. I studied art in school-my degree is in fine art, with an area of focus on design. I spent a lot of time after I graduated working as a frustrated designer. My clients were happy, but nothing was ever "good enough" in the feels really satisfying sense. Then I shifted my focus to development and I get a lot more satisfaction out of it. I find that it suits my particular brand of creativity and attention to technical details. I love the problem solving, and conjuring up working software out of nothing. I still do some design work, and I still enjoy it, but I do it on my own terms, or I do things like interfaces - again, more technical in nature. I quite like doing the occasional pencil or marker drawing, because it's good stress relief. But it's programming that really satisfies my need to create.