I'm in the same boat. I learned vim and when I went to university all they use is emacs. I've tried time and time again but as you say it somehow feels wrong. Why do I have to dislocate my finger just to do a commnad? Vim feels much less in the way when doing stuff.

With that said I'm trying to use emacs org mode to keep myself organized, which works great! But I would never trade it with vim as my code editor, not in a million years. Sorry.