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Chapter 29 Typing: A Morning Exercise

was not able to get a job between graduating from high school I and going to college. Although I would usually play tennis in the afternoon and go out with friends at night, my mornings were free, and after a few days they were boring. Thus, I looked for something to do. I found the something in a typewriter my parents had bought me. I could not type. In the early 1960s, keyboarding was for girls so they could get a job as a secretary, if needed.

I found a book on typing around our house that had belonged to my mother when she was an adolescent. One morning I put my index fingers on the “G” and the “H” in the second row of letters and expanded from there as I followed the instructions on how to type. It became a postbreakfast ritual. By the end of the summer, I could type three pages an hour if I kept my eyes on the keys. It was not much, but it was further than I had been. Months later it saved me the expense of having someone type my college papers. Unemployment and discipline paid rich dividends.

Points to Ponder

1 What were your strategies for doing well in middle school and high school? How well did they succeed?

2 What social issues did you observe as an adolescent that you wanted to change? What have you done about these issues since you have become an adult?

3 How has your family’s history made an impact on you for better or worse? How does your family’s history still have an impact on you today?

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