It might be that your programming the wrong kind of projects or a language that you don't enjoy. When I started out I was working on Java in very nasty codebas

It might be that your programming the wrong kind of projects or a language that you don't enjoy. When I started out I was working on Java in very nasty codebases - it turned out that wasn't enjoyable for me - once I changed platforms I remembered why that it could be enjoyable. For me it was about doing projects with nice quick feedback (e.g. just playing with pygame, or building things for the mobile platform of the day).