Re: Compendium

On 30 Aug 2006 22:57:23 -0400, Ann Burlingham <annb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Kathryn Burlingham <pipyn@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Mike McKinley wrote:
My father told me not to take typing in high school, "because some
woman will do it for you."
God! That was some of the worst advice I ever got.

Our Aunt told us not to take typing because if we knew how to type the
men would expect us to do all the typing instead of the more
interesting work.

I always thought it was fairly sound advice, for the time.

Yeah, but now I wished I'd learned, though I'm pretty fast when in
practice.

I inquitred, by the way: they start in grade school and call it
"keyboarding" now. Jeepers.

Holy jumped-up Jesus!

Chris "I suppose that it makes them want to take it, thinking it has something
to do with skateboarding or snowboarding--by the time they realised it's
actually something to do with work, the door is shut and locked and they're
learning about the home row." Hansen, who taught himself how to touch type and
who could type 100+ wpm from copy thirty years ago.
--
Chris Hansen | chrishansenhome at btinternet dot com
|http://www.christianphansen.com or
|http://www.livejournal.com/users/chrishansenhome/
Mike: "jank+, home from school on a snow-day, Miami-style"
Jed: "You can't get where you're going because the streets have
been made impassible by vast piles of cocaine?"
.

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