Many of these changes require that you schedule a transition period. For example, when I learned Dvorak, I had to wait until my semester was over and I was on a break. When you are a student, there is always winter and summer break. After you graduate, however, breaks are few and far between. Therefore, learning a new layout can be quite difficult when you are already in the workforce and under deadlines. You may need to wait until you are between jobs, have a light work period, or are on a vacation to learn a new layout.

To work through this objection, let’s consider the cost of not making changes. If you don’t make changes to attain pain-free computing, you will likely experience more pain, develop a computer-related injury, and reduce your own productivity and appetite for work. At some point, you will likely purchase some medicine and/or wrist braces, receive some medical attention, and lose some productivity. Doctor’s visits, trips to the chiropractor, living in pain, and lost productivity all have a significant cost in terms of time and money. Also, in the long term, you may end up making many of these changes anyway. Therefore, you should seriously consider expending the effort on the front end and avoiding injury.

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