[cuban leaf]

I graduated from high school in 1972. The most useful class I took was touch typing. :-D

I find it fascinating because I took that course as an “easy A” class and for no other reason.

[DugwayDuke]

cuban leaf wrote: “I graduated from high school in 1972. The most useful class I took was touch typing. :-D”

I graduated high school in 1964. Went on to get an engineering degree and a masters. My father insisted on two things for his sons. One, they go to college. Two, they take typing in high school. I’ll have to agree that I’ve used the typing class far more than calculus.

[Jimmy The Snake]

They just now figured this out? Unless the Major is in Engineering or Business, the degree is useless you want to be a teacher. A degree is not worth $100K+ anymore at all. Go to a Tech school and learn a trade/skill.

I was an Info-Tech Mgr/Dir from 1995-2015 and I found that around 2005 Colleges stopped turning out the people I needed to hire. I got what I needed from 2 yr Tech Schools w/ experience.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The most useful class I took was touch typing

Me too. I did not want to take it as I was the only male in the class. But my mom forced the issue. A few years later when my brother was paying girls to type his term papers for him she suddenly seemed pretty smart. Now everyone works on a keyboard.

[Codeflier]

I say the same thing often. Typing was the most valuable high school course. Something that has helped me almost every day since.

[BlueLancer]

I graduated from high school in 1972. The most useful class I took was touch typing.

I also graduated in 1972. In 1966, my mother took me out of Little League for the summer and sat me down at the kitchen table with her old high school typing book and a manual typewriter. Every day, I went to "Mom's Typing School" and it was one of the hardest classes that I've ever taken. By the end of the summer, I was touch-typing at a speed of about 65 words per minute.

The skill was the best thing to have all through high school, typing reports and term papers. While attending the USNA from 72-74, I earned a bunch of extra money typing term papers and reports for other midshipmen. After I left the Naval Academy, I ended up in the Army in 1975 as an infantryman at Fort Hood. Because I could type, I became the CO's driver and the company clerk as an additional duty (and if you don't think that serving as HQ security versus schlepping an M60 on patrol through the boonies of Fort Hood isn't a benefit, you've never been an infantryman).

One day after coming into work, my First Sergeant came out of his office and said, "You can type pretty fast. Go compete for this court reporter school slot at Division JAG." So I went down there and beat out all of the legal clerks in the 1st Cav Division for the slot. I ended up attending Court Reporter School in 1978 and have worked, both in the military and as a civilian, as a court reporter/stenographer since that time.

The best thing that my mother ever did to ensure my future ... and, over the years, I have apologized and apologized, over and over again, about what a disgruntled student with a poor attitude I was that summer. I should have known that I never would be a Hall of Fame catcher ...

[wally_bert]

I took typing to fill out the schedule in my senior year.

Between typing and auto mechanics, I learned useful stuff. The rest was a comically easy waste of time.