This stood them in good stead until the computer/word processor appeared on the scene, when the world and his wife started typing their own stuff. This development worked well for the Biologists in my husband's office. Suddenly he did not have to spend weeks waiting for the head secretary to arrange for his paper to be typed. She was the kind of civil servant people love to hate. Cutting and pasting and editing was much easier.Soon he could produce his own graphs and tables. The former had required weeks of waiting for his turn to come up with the draftsman. Wes grumbled when Catherine and I bought the scanner but he now uses it constantly for his contract work to produce overheads and scan in photos of sites he is studying. Draftsmen and secretaries are largely a thing of the past in many government offices. Their numbers are greatly reduced. Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marged" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 12:08 PM Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] 11 plus exam I actually told our girls NOT to learn to type under any circumstances as I had noticed that once men in an office found out you could type, you got no further than being a secretary. This stood them in good stead until the computer/word processor appeared on the scene, when the world and his wife started typing their own stuff. Didn't you find this, working in a school office, Bubbles, that the teaching staff suddenly started bringing in documents they had prepared at home, wanting the office staff to just make a million copies, even though the document looked like C*** and you didn't want to be associated with it? Marj > My mother took a secretarial course after she left school and her training > stood her in good stead for the rest of her life. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 19/04/02 ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== Suspect virus messages should be sent to the List Admin only, NOT to the list, so they can be checked out before a panic starts. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 4/19/02