As much time as I spend on a computer, it amazes even me that I still do not know how to type. Typing is one of those skills that I really need to learn and would want to learn well, but never quite have the time to build that practice into my life. As I grow older and enter into more administrative jobs, it seems that I will have to do more and more typing. I enjoy writing, and most of that is done typing. I enjoy social media which, again, more and more requires typing.
One of these days—I need to learn to type.
Honestly, I should have learned in high school. I like to say—”We didn’t know”, but that really is not true. In 1982, Time magazine named the Computer “Machine of the Year” with the caption “The computer moves in.” What we did not know, however, was how much the computer would change our lives thirty years later. In high school, the school offered a typing class with typewriters. Computers were not necessarily common place. I used an IBM DOS 9complete with boot-up disk) in college. I never thought that I would be using typing every single day ten years later.
I have owned a couple of typing software programs, but have not sat down for days on end to learn. However, typing is not going away. Typing may go away one day—but right now I must learn. Even if I use my kids homeschool lessons.
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