Message #4534

[hupawoman]

I'm at about 75 wpm, with very few errors.  I had one heck of a typing teacher in college (I had taught myself in high school on a manual), her goal was NO errors, ever.  One time she threw a typewriter across the room because someone had whipped the paper out of the machine without using the release!  I heard later that she kept an old typewriter to use for her throwing exercise.  



CraftyGirl, I too type without reading.  I can carry on conversations, daydream, listen to music etc... while typing.  I bet you're the type that can read and watch tv and listen to your kids in the next room right?  



Regarding agencies... I recently decided to look for a new job closer to home.  I signed up with three agencies, Adecco, Office Team and a smaller privately run shop.  Adecco sent me out on bogus interviews several times, and continued to advertise a non-existent jobs on their website and monster.  I also posted my resume on Monster and that's where I got all of the best interviews and the job I have now.  Office team was the only one that had me tested for application skills.  They also gave me a test for legal secretaries and I got a perfect score!  I can only explain it by saying I watch court tv sometimes.  So  they kept trying to talk me into a legal position.  It was as if they thought I didn't know what I wanted and when I kept refusing they didn't call about any position.  So I'm a little leery about agencies.  I always feel like they don't really care about what you may be looking for, only in making their commission.