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how hard is programming
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how hard ... it would be for someone like me ?

We can't say: it depends on how your mind works. For me, I find it pretty easy, but I've been doing this for a very long time, so it's all "unconscious competence" for me, where you are sitting pretty much at "unconscious incompetence" - which isn't an insult, it's "trainer speak" for "not knowing how little you know", where mine is "not having to think about how to do it"*. And a "decent job" (by which you probably mean "well paid and indoors in the warm with no heavy lifting" (this is what attracteed me to the field in the first place, I must admit) takes competence: without a reasonable amount of competence (which is measured by most companies in terms of experience) you can't get anything but entry level jobs (and there are a lot of people with pieces of paper saying "I can do it" applying for them as well). Which you will be unsurprised to hear aren't interesting or well paid.

You can do it: but you need to get solid experience and knowledge of the language first and formost, and the framework second.

Photoshop isn't a job: it's an application used in many jobs, and which requires good knowledge as well and a creative flair to use properly. Not sure anyone can be taught that bit! similar problems with video editing, and web dev needs good software, together with creative flair (and a very thick skin).

I'm not trying to discourage you, but ... procrastination and 3 hours a day are not a good starting point, nor are games. Games these days are constructed by massive teams in a multitude of disciplines, and unless you are writing pretty simple Android or iOS games (in which case you probably need to learn Java or Objective C) you don't stand much chance of making much. Even with mobile games, there isn't that much profit to go around.

Good luck - I really hope you do well, whatever you decide to do.

* there are four stages of training:
1) unconscious incompetence: you don't know how to do it, and don't know that you don't know how to do it
2) conscious incompetence: you know how little you know and can do
3) conscious competence: you know you can do it
4) unconscious competence: you now longer have to think about how you do it

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