I was lucky in the sense that I chose to switch to Colemak from QWERTY my first year in college when I realized I wanted to pursue programming as a career _and_

I was lucky in the sense that I chose to switch to Colemak from QWERTY my first year in college when I realized I wanted to pursue programming as a career _and_ that I couldn't learn retroactively how to touch type QWERTY. I hadn't developed any real habits at that point.. all that I had was my terrible 5-total-finger QWERTY typing style inherited from shit-talking people in Age of Empires 2 when I was a kid.