I've watched tons of tutorials on different languages and frameworks but all the generalized tutorial projects were boring... it wasn't till I got hired to work

I've watched tons of tutorials on different languages and frameworks but all the generalized tutorial projects were boring... it wasn't till I got hired to work on something cool.. something that i honestly had no idea how to do or where to start.. I just decided I'd pick a php framework ..laravel being most elegant ..this was after coding the MVP in rails but not being able to deploy it on shared hosting (hostgator and site5 both lacked support for rails 3.2 and Ruby1.9..)..so I ported what I had in rails to laravel and discovered how easy beautiful and rails like laravel is.Moral. ..drop tutorials and just build something. Pick a framework and build it... Don't know what to build? Build someone else's idea via a freelancing site...working day in and day out is the only way to become a programmer.