Typewriter
@allknowing (145386)
India
March 2, 2023 7:03pm CST
I started my career as a secretary and rose to middle management cadre before calling it a day. I had to get some experience in some small companies before working for a multi national where I worked for 22 years.
In the good old days those who knew typing were in demand. I learnt to type at a place close to where I was living and spent a few months there. I was a good typist I gave up typing when I was elevated to the post in the management cadre.
I am glad I learnt to type as it is helping me use the computer keyboard with ease and speed.
Do you know typing?
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@allknowing (145386)
• India
3 Mar 23
We never got to use it while we were in school. I learnt it after college.
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@MasGion (1847)
• Malang, Indonesia
3 Mar 23
@allknowing when I in college, computer was familiar and rented in some place. Unit price of computer & laptop very high that time
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@allknowing (145386)
• India
3 Mar 23
@MasGion I got to use computer years after college - after I gave up working
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@allknowing (145386)
• India
3 Mar 23
What made you learn typing in the first place. In my case I was looking for a job that involved typing
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@allknowing (145386)
• India
3 Mar 23
@JudyEv I learnt typing but got a job as a secretary as I had also learnt shorthand but as I have mentioned in the post I made progress and reached the middle management cadre before I gave up working
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@JudyEv (352987)
• Rockingham, Australia
3 Mar 23
@allknowing All of Vince's class learnt at school. I took a secretarial course as an adult.
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@kaylachan (77505)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
3 Mar 23
Yeah, I do. I grew up having to type because I went through a transition where I found reading print very difficult to next to impossible. So, I went to braille about halfway through high school. Most of my teachers were lazy, and didn't[t want to bothered with braille. So I had to type all my assignments.
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@allknowing (145386)
• India
3 Mar 23
That experience will now be useful as you must be working on your mobile or pc/laptop
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@allknowing (145386)
• India
3 Mar 23
@kaylachan I hardly see you making mistakes here. Congratulations
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@kaylachan (77505)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
3 Mar 23
@allknowing Yeah. I feel blessed. I can actually type, spell for the most part, and do things my friends can't do. They rely on voice dictation to use their devices and that's often hit-or-miss. Sure, I make mistakes from time to time, but I own up to them.
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@allknowing (145386)
• India
3 Mar 23
@LadyDuck I too had an electric one and I do not remember the brand. It had some nice features, copy and copy paste if I remember. I gave it as a gift to the doctor who I used to contact for homoeopathic remedies. But later he told me he could not get the ribbon. I do not what he did with it
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@allknowing (145386)
• India
3 Mar 23
I have the baby Hermes. We never learnt that in school. I learnt when I was interested in working
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@LadyDuck (473993)
• Italy
3 Mar 23
@allknowing We learnt in school on a manual typewriter first and then using an electric one. My first electric was an IBM with the ball, you could have different balls so you can type using different fonts.
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@allknowing (145386)
• India
3 Mar 23
Did you go about "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"? If you could type this sentence fast then you would have landed as it contains all the 26alphabets (lol)
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@allknowing (145386)
• India
3 Mar 23
@Kandae11 Yours then is not the touch system. Do you still type with two fingers?
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@Kandae11 (56395)
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3 Mar 23
@allknowing l typed with two fingers like the male reporters did. I was the only female there at the time.
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@allknowing (145386)
• India
3 Mar 23
We never had it when we were in school or college.
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@Adie04 (17358)
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3 Mar 23
@allknowing No no, I mean, I use it at home when I was in high school. Then the typewriter broken right at the moment I finish high school, and buy new laptop to enter university until now.
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@shaggin (74174)
• United States
3 Mar 23
I used to love playing with my moms typewriter. I could type very fast due to having used it since I was small to write stories. In high school we has to take a keyboarding class. I made mistakes but could type over 80 words per minute. It made my teacher so angry who couldn’t type as fast as I could and assumed I had some way of cheating. She was wrong.
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@allknowing (145386)
• India
3 Mar 23
It depends on the practice and your teacher was wrong My speed was excellent and I passed a couple of tests. But now I make typos at the first attempt and need to edit often.
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@RebeccasFarm (94525)
• Arvada, Colorado
3 Mar 23
I had more than one typewriter in my life
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@allknowing (145386)
• India
3 Mar 23
Your knowledge must be coming in handy now if you are using a laptop or desktop
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@allknowing (145386)
• India
3 Mar 23
It is such a boon. We never had it in school but I learnt when I wanted to equip myself to look for a job.
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@pitsipeahie (5191)
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3 Mar 23
Yes, I'm a touch typist. I learned typing during my college years as it is part of the curriculum. That was Typing I and Typing II. To be honest, of all the things I learned in school, typing has been the most useful up to these days. Something that I put to use everyday. 
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@allknowing (145386)
• India
3 Mar 23
It goes faster on laptops and desktops too (lol)
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@allknowing (145386)
• India
3 Mar 23
Do you have the touch system? That is not possible if one does not learn it
@Beestring (15339)
• Hong Kong
3 Mar 23
Yes, I can type pretty fast. I've used both manual and electric typewriter.
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@allknowing (145386)
• India
3 Mar 23
It's a real blessing as both laptop and desk top keyboards will be cake walk for you
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