In 1990, when I graduated HS, if you were going to graduate and be "college
bound", you had to take a typing class. It was Sr. year and it was "Health"
one semester, "Typing" the next or vice versa.
If you were "Vo-Tech" typing was an option, but "Health" was still mandatory.
Same teacher taught both classes. One of the most bitter and angry people I
have ever met.
The though of "Health" class taught by an angry, frigid, humorless 60 year old
woman still makes me wonder. I guess if you had to manage the subject matter
with a bunch of teenagers, many of whom were headed nowhere, after a few years,
you would end up like that too.
Typing was one of the most valuable skills I ever learned.
My kids all had typing classes in public schools in 1st and 2nd grade post
2010.
Time and technology change everything.
I wish I could learn to type on a phone and manage the "autocorrect", that
would be something.
-----Original Message-----
From: Triumphs <triumphs-bounces@autox.team.net> On Behalf Of TeriAnn J. Wakeman
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2020 6:38 PM
To: triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [TR] needs repaired
On 1/30/20 6:23 PM, Bud Rolofson wrote:
> Exactly, I took typing in eighth grade because there lots of girls in
> that class and I was a horny 13 yo. But my 50 yo typing muscle memory
> will always space twice after a period. Can�t help it.
>
> Busted.
>
> Bud
I didn't take typing in high school because I didn't want to be pigeonholed as
a secretary. In early years I went in to interview for a technical position
with a degree in electronics & almost always was asked what my typing speed
was. When I mentioned about a page ever 2 hours or so, I got interviewed for
the job I was applying for. I knew a woman with a Stanford masters in physics
who in the mid 60s worked as a tech group secretary.
During college when I needed to submit typed papers, I traded typing for either
a homemade apple pie or a ready to bake homemade lasagna. I single space
between sentences only on emails. That is because my mailer produces strange
characters when I double space a sentence. The books I have authored are all
double spaced between sentences and my reviewers have forced me to use oxford
comas. They are not used in technical papers.
TeriAnn
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