Programming

My chosen profession is computer programming, which I guess makes me a computer programmer. Software engineer if we want to remove the stigma.  The thing is I've never really been good at programming, and I think it's the sheer fact that my profession is in dire need of people that I'm allowed to be hired.  I just forget a lot of stuff, I'm clumsy on the proper processes and techniques, and don't always come up with the most elegant of solutions.  My stuff will work, but I always need the help of more competent people to finish strongly.  Most people don't opt-in to something there not good at, but I'm not good at a lot of traditional things.  I've always been good at the in-betweens, the spaces between skills, like I can translate program to design or design to program.  I can translate the emotions of a person into concrete facts.  I can connect information between multiple systems of thought.  What I'm best at is lateral thinking.  But I perform terribly when faced with a linear facing problem. So I see what others miss, but I can't take the action to it's logical conclusion.  I guess I just feel devalued, when I make the connections, but they complete the process, they really get all the credit, when there is equal work in completion and connection.  Getting from A to B is just as challenging as figuring out how to get there.  I just don't think people take notice of that fact enough.