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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe President should be able to drive, type, and know that smartphone can access many email accounts
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dsc
(52,172 posts)can't use a Dictaphone, can't write long hand notes for a secretary, must be able to type. Really? That matters more than say their position on civil rights, or gay rights. Really?
uponit7771
(90,370 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)Or Exxon Mobil. Or Goldman Sachs. Or United Healthcare. Or all.
Martin O'Malley!
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)...for candidates and office-holders to learn that stuff.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)almost everyone should know how to type.
A lot of jobs require typing, and I never get over being shocked when I meet someone my age or younger (and I'm 66, so I'm barely willing to give Hillary Clinton a pass here) who can't type.
When I first entered the working world fifty years ago, almost no men could type or had any need to. But now? Most jobs wind up requiring at least some keyboard usage. And an attorney who needs to be producing lots and lots of written material? I find it astonishing that any attorney out there who is under 80 can't type.
I also think everyone should know how to drive a stick shift, but that's just me.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)I do have one co-worker that is probably the best hunt-n-peck I have ever witnessed....
Knows all the keys just use two fingers though LOL
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)The airline I worked for had just switched over to a computerized reservations system, which meant we were typing on a computer terminal all day to make and retrieve reservations.
A few years later my airline was taken over by a larger one, and this larger airline did not hire directly into the job category at the airport, but preferred to start all new employees on the ramp, loading and unloading airplanes, and then allow them to bid other positions as they became available. So after a while I'd be working alongside some man who had been a ramp agent for a few years, had barely ever even seen a typewriter or keyboard of any kind, and who could barely even hunt-and-peck. It was infuriating, because they could wait on maybe one passenger while I could wait on four or five, maybe even more. There needed to be some sort of basic keyboard proficiency for the job, maybe being able to type 25 or 30 words a minute, which isn't very fast, and probably a decent hunt-and-pecker can do that, but three words a minute, which is about what some of these guys could achieve, shouldn't have been acceptable.
I was recently at a writing workshop, and at one point the instructor had everyone come to the workshop with their laptop or legal pad or whatever they used to compose the first draft. He had us write for 15 minutes, and then asked those with the word count capacity to let him know how many words they'd produced. 150, 300, 340. I raised my hand. 632 words. All were astonished. I'm a fast typist.
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)until I started dating the best looking girl in the class. I was one of only 2-3 guys taking it, but that coarse sure as hell helped me in so many ways over the years. Thanks to being able to type, I saved a ton of money in college typing my term papers. Most of my male friends had to pay someone. It helped me get an office job when I was drafted during Vietnam. It made using computers with keyboards a helluva' lot easier when I was in the business world.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)and it seems that nobody knew about the smart phone, even a week later. How sad is that?
Driving and typing don't matter.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)I don't drive!