Nearly every job I've had could be linked to the secretarial typing course I took in High School, which was more intensive than the basic course most everybody else took. We had IBM Selectrics. The guy behind me hit the power button and the carriage flew off the typewriter.

I learned to type on a manual typewriter, I'm pretty sure Royal, in seventh grade. I've been a touch typist ever since.

My mom had an old manual at home, plus I took a typing class (also on a manual) my freshman year of high school. I can not imagine not using the right shift key. How do you make capitals with your left hand while using the left shift key? I'd be keysmashing all over the place.

I didn't take typing in high school because it wasn't included in my program. The 'college entrance' track didn't include any skills classes, only things like language and arts. Why they didn't think we would have to type in college is still a mystery to me.

Typing didn't happen until I had my own computer around 1980. Then I used a software program - Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing!

I used mavis!

Sail I don't really know. Sometimes I make typos but mostly it works. I'm my phone now so I can't practice. The other thing I rarely do I'd use the numbers one the keyboard. If it's just typing 1 or 2 digit numbets I might other wise I use the number pad. Not having that on the chromebook slows me down.

I have a cold or something. Sore throat and runny nose slight fever yesterday and I felt cold all day. Did not go to work. Called out today I'm beginning to feel irresponsible. But it hurts to talk and after I talk and talking is a keypart of my job. Plus my supervisor came into work when he was sick and I blame him. I've called out a lot in the past six m9nths. Enough tht even though I've been sick they could still do an informal write up

I hope you can get rid of it quickly, askye. I tend to super hydrate myself when I feel a twinge of anything. My sister generally pushes the EmergenC stuff on me too.

I need to go to the store. Which makes me anxious because if I can go to the store I should be able to work (so claims my brain) . I know that's not true. But I need water (my water quality is bad and I dont have a decent on faucet filtering system and I don't trust the Britta pitcher anymore. Even with a new filter the waterms lookss/tastes wrong) and the cat needs food and I need tissues and something else I keep forgetting. I'll have to check Emerged E label to see if I can take it. Finding cough drops without problem ingingredients was hard enough.

Laura, I was on the college track, too, but I took it in summer school, where I could take fluff classes. (I ended up graduating with more credits than I needed.) My mom suggested it, because even with a degree in Biology she ended up doing secretarial work for a large portion of her adult career. Even though it was the early 70s where a lot of women were starting to realize they could have careers other than secretarial work, she and I felt it never hurt to have a fallback based on her experiences.

Intro to Keyboarding was a requirement for the college track at my high school for Freshmen. I think the school didn't want us to have any excuse for handing in handwritten reports.

I took typing in high school and we all lined up on brand new IBM Selectric typewriters (with the font ball).

Then I took shorthand my senior year, which was a two period class with an extra of typing my senior year. I was the only guy in shorthand and one of the few in typing. However, I did get my speed up to 95wpm and it kept me fed for decades on various temp jobs.

They also had a class for court reporters and that was probably the best investment public school ever made in those girls' lives, as that was a pretty good gig in 1979.