> Perhaps it is my liberal arts background, but I feel a constant sense of inadequacy about my intellectual achievements every time I read a technical article.

> Perhaps it is my liberal arts background, but I feel a constant sense of inadequacy about my intellectual achievements every time I read a technical article. I feel like I haven't cracked a hard problem, and that bothers me. I fell that won't go away once you learn how to program. Likelihood is you're envy will just switch from being envious of all programmers, to being envious of programmers who "actually solve hard problems" And that bar will keep moving with your skill level. Now, on the other hand, in my opinion everything important becomes a difficult marketing problem at some point. So realizing the contribution of what you do, may help some.