Is programming right for me?

So /prog/riders, I have a question for you. I am relatively inexperienced with programming, having only learned some Ruby (I know you guys dislike it, but it was rather easy to pick up), and only made simple programs like text-based games and 1 2D isometric RPG (though I never finished it due to laziness). It was really unoptimized and sloppily coded, with a million conditional branches everywhere and so many goto statements.

However, the whole time, although it was fun seeing the (mediocre) fruits of my labor, it did seem rather boring and sometimes stressed me out. Keep in mind I was only messing around with Ruby for fun, not in a class or something. Would taking some programming classes be any different?

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2. Getting all the symbols and punctuation confused.
If you hate syntax, Lisp is great for you.
3. Encountering errors that don't tell me what type of error it was.
It also has an excellent condition system.

However, I wouldn't consider it a newbie's language. It may be better to learn more "normal" languages first and only come to it when they annoy you too much.

Reading SICP is also a good idea, it's not a hard book and any programmer should read it at least once.