<Do you have a secretary taking dictation for you are you just one hell of a typist?>
Funny that you should ask. When people see/hear me at the office or in the trading room typing on the PC at my usual blinding speed they often ask where I learned to type that quickly/accurately. Here is my true "nerd childhood" story, in a nutshell.
When I was in the fourth grade in Kansas, my mother informed me that she had enrolled me in a summer-school typing class. Why [in the Hell] I politely asked Mom, do you think I should waste the summer in a class on TYPING? Isn't that sort of thing for the GIRLS? (etc.) I protested vigorously.
She patiently explained, sagely, that I should just acquire the skill and master it, without asking questions - and I would understand "later" (I got the same sage advise about learning how to fix the car). Anyway, I did so well in the summer-school class, I went on to take the "heavy" typing classes in fifth and sixth grade (and took some serious kidding from my peers).
She didn't know of course, that the PC revolution was coming. Today as the owner of all those Pentiums, as an active netizen who "lives" off of PC's in both businesses, I am thankful for that summer typing class every single day. My little brother, always a bit more fun-loving and mischievous than me, refused the advice and still struggles with touch-typing to this day as a consequence! Poor guy, I've tried to help him learn QWERTY typing but it's harder to learn later in life - like picking up a new language.
Good trading, -Steve |
