I'm 2 posts from 10,000, but I have nothing to talk about.

[Left Is Write]

[Debbi801]

1. Any plans for your summer vacation?

You can do it... :-)

[Left Is Write]

8. Planning a trip to Minnesota!

[progmom]

2. would you like us to talk about you?

:hi:

[Left Is Write]

9. You mean you don't already?

:silly:

[In Truth We Trust]

3. How bout: Paper ballots NOW!; Hand counts NOW!

[Left Is Write]

10. Sounds good to me.

[lady lib]

4. You could hang out with 9999 all day

and enjoy the anticipation :)

[Left Is Write]

6. I thought about it, but I broke free.

:D

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Hey there, Left Is Write!

Where'd you go? All these good people lined up like planes at LAX ready to help you....and you're gone! Talk to us! OK?

[Left Is Write]

7. LOL! Laundry called. And kids who needed sunblock.

And an exercise video.

[redacted]

11. How do you get that many posts between 9/04 and now without getting

carpel tunnel? Tell me that.

[Left Is Write]

12. I'm a good typist.

And I'm a fast typist.

Carpal tunnel? Come on.

[tenshi816]

13. Me too!

OK, this is just to help you get your post count up here, well partly, but it's also something I'm kind of interested in.

My story: Back in the pre-computer days (or pre-homePC-days, I should say, but still back when dinosaurs roamed the earth or so it seems now) when I was in high school, my stepfather insisted that I take typing my senior year. At the time I was dead set against it because the way I saw it, I was going to college so why did I need to learn to type :o (for a smart kid, I didn't think too logically at times, because touch-typing is a useful skill to have).

Anyway, stepfather's reasoning was that I was a girl, and since girls weren't as valuable in the job market (HIS reasoning, not mine, BTW!!!), I should learn to type so that "I would have something to fall back on".

So, I ended up taking typing and quickly discovered that I had an almost idiot savant ability - I've been tested at 120+WPM with no errors. Weird, I know. Why, out of all the skills I could possibly excel at in the world, did mine have to be typing accurately really fast?

Thankfully, typing hasn't turned out to be the only thing I'm good at but, a couple of degrees later, I'm happy to admit that it's been a good thing to be able to do well. I wish I could be this effortlessly coordinated in everything I do.

It's a mixed blessing for other people I deal with though, because I can knock out really, really long e-mails in a short time, which means I send probably way too many of them (like now maybe?). Diarrhoea of the keyboard is sometimes not a good thing...

What's your story? Could you type fast from the get-go? Did you ever wonder why other people couldn't do it as quickly as you?

Let's get that post count up today!




My lovely Lolabunny

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. I LOVE your story!

What a gift to have...you can always use it someplace!

:yourock:

[tenshi816]

15. Thank you!

Actually it has been a useful thing to be able to do well. I moved to the UK in 1986 to be with my English boyfriend when he came back home after working in the States for a couple of years, but I didn't have a skill that would get me a work permit (I had a degree in English with a minor in Anthropology, but the powers that be here didn't consider it sufficient to allow me to be employed).

But I could bloody well type, spell and punctuate.

I decided to put those skills to work and, taking advantage of the ignorance of most temp agencies of the rules about foreign workers, I spent nearly a year working in various law firms in London making a fairly respectable rate of pay (for an American ex-pat without a work permit).

I'm still here, I might add, although I've been legal for a long time, with a UK degree as well, and I can still type like you wouldn't believe.

If I could pick my own superpower, being a keyboard queen wouldn't be the one I would choose, but I'd have been a fool not to make use of it when I needed it.




My lovely Lolabunny

[Left Is Write]

18. Hi!

I don't really need to get my post count up, but I'm happy to talk with you anyway.

I took typing in high school, but I already knew how to type. I taught myself to type (correctly) on my grandmother's old manual typewriter at the age of 8.

Typing did come easily to me, as it did to my older sister. She once took a typing test in high school at 110wpm with no errors. Her teacher was so excited that he went out into the hallway, knocking on other teachers' doors to tell them about it.

Welcome to DU!

[tenshi816]

19. I was just trying to help you get above the 10,000 post mark -

because that's pretty damn impressive!

Thanks for the welcome. I only discovered DU last September. I also found out about FR shortly after that, which I could have done without (scary scary site, that one). This is a good place.

Probably seems strange for someone to be interested in how you learned to type, but I've always found my ability kind of odd and whenever I encounter someone else who's the same, I like to hear about it.

We'll have to start a Nimble Fingers Club or something...

[xmas74]

16. Congratulations!

[barb162]

17. congratulations

[bigwillq]

20. Congrats on 10,000!

:toast: :party: :bounce: