[TR] needs repaired

[Patrick Baize]

I never took typing in school. Later I tried to use "Mavis Beaves 
teaches typing", didn't work. I have been writing software for over 30 
years, I use 3 fingers, 1 on left hand, 2 on the right.

Patrick


On 1/31/2020 6:27 AM, DAVID MASSEY wrote:
> I never took a typing class, I am self taught.  I remember staying up 
> all night typing a report for class in highschool.  When I started 
> working there was no need for an engineer to type.  Enter the desk-top 
> computer. Now I spend most of my time staring at a screen typing on a 
> keyboard.  Who'd a thunk?
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jpaynepbr <jpaynepbr at cox.net>
> To: 'TeriAnn J. Wakeman' <tjwakeman at gmail.com>; triumphs 
> <triumphs at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thu, Jan 30, 2020 9:07 pm
> Subject: Re: [TR] needs repaired
>
> 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 at autox.team.net> On Behalf Of TeriAnn 
> J. Wakeman
> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2020 6:38 PM
> To: triumphs at 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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