Ask HN: IS there any hope for me?

Now you also have the skills to work with a sales team. Consider that a bonus to your programming skills.

What do you want to do? Start your own business? get a job as a developer?

Sure. You just need to have something that you want to create, and the time to devote a few hours here and there to making it.

If you want to change to a career of programming, pick up one of the currently popular languages like Java or C# and build a small project that you can show to prospective employers as proof that you've still got talent.