Haskell is not a language that you can expect to pick up and be writing awesome stuff by lunch time.

There's no substitute for humbling yourself and learning to program all over again. I understand that it's difficult; you think you've mastered the art of writing programs, but suddenly you're back at square one.

No language is perfect, but if you persist and stick with it long enough to become productive, you will have learnt a huge amount and that knowledge is useful in the real-world.