Learned to type in high school. So far, I can type 60 wpm.

vainandy said:

Genesia said:

Typing was an elective when I was in high school, but my mother insisted that my sisters and I take at least a semester. My parents were insistent that we were all going to college - and knew that meant we'd be typing papers. (On a typewriter - nobody had a computer back then.)

Learning to type served me well because I went into fields where you really need to know how to use a keyboard - journalism, PR, copywriting. In fact, I was typing on a manual typewriter as late as 1991, in a radio station newsroom.

I still, to this very day, type on a typewriter at work to type contracts. They are the three-copy carbonless type contracts that require an original signature for the office and then we give the client the back copy which has the signatures on it. I get so tired of people asking us to email them a contract. I mean, how the hell would we have a legal contract if we didn't have an original signature on it?

When I first started my present job in 1998, I was scared of the computer because the feel of the keyboard is much different than the typewriter. I was used to pressing down hard on the keys and I didn't like the computer because if my finger just barely grazed the key, the letter was typed. I typed my boss's memos on the typewriter for a total of ONE day. By the time she got through proofreading it and discovering that she left something out, I would have to retype the entire memo just to insert one little sentence she originally left out. I must have typed the same memo completely over five times before I got my ass on that computer and got over that fear REAL quick.

Same here. I learned to type on a manual typewriter. At that time, computers were those great big monstronsities that took up an entire room. I bet there are some people here who've never even seen a damn typewiter!

As recent as 2007 I had to type personnel recommendations with 8 carbonless copies. I used a word processor typwriter. I could format it to automatically type in certain information and then would have to go back and manually type in more personal info. I hated doing that shit because I had to do 125 forms for physicians.

I don't "peck" at the keys, but I don't type properly either. We had a typing/ computer class at my tiny Catholic elementary school, but there were not enough computers so we had to practice typing on a cardboard sheet of paper with a picture of a keyboard on it.