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Originally Posted by justjim
I took "personal typing" one semester in High School. There was about half dozen guys in the class who took it too----teacher was good looking! Actually, the class was one of the best "things" I did in H.S. Seems like I got up to about 45 words per minute which wasn't bad for a guy, huh?
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My parents, who had one high school diploma between them, told me to listen to the school's counselors about courses to take to prepare for college, but they insisted I take two classes: typing and, when I was old enough, driver's ed.
At the start of my sophomore year in high school, in the fall of 1960, I signed up for typing and didn't like the idea. I knew the class would be full of girls who would all be better at this than I would.
So, imagine my delight to find the class was almost all boys -- members of the football team looking for an "easy" class to stay eligible to play.
As for typing and driver's ed, I spent 47 years in one form of journalism or another, including 39 years in newspapers. I can say those two classes are the only ones I've used every day since high school.