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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

I'm so old...

...I remember when learning how to type was a choice. "Should I take typing class?" It wasn't absolutely necessary to exist, it was an option--usually for "secretaries." Remember them? And remember when being called a secretary wasn't pejorative? Yeah, THAT old.
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

When I lived in Nashville, I worked at a factory during the day & went to a business college at night to learn to become a secretary. Male secretaries weren't laughed at then; they were highly valued. I got hired by the college president's husband before I had even earned my diploma.

I saw a movie once about the first woman to become a secretary & how rough it was for her. Woman weren't supposed to work at anything at all. They were only 'allowed' to be housewives.

September 14, 2011 at 1:26 PM
Mo Rage said...

We can only begin to list how many changes--social, technological, etc.--have been made in the last 50 or more years.

September 15, 2011 at 10:18 AM

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