On the path to my career I met….

I always enjoyed typing, in fact, I taught myself to type on my aunt’s portable typewriter typing out poems while sitting on the floor in my room probably in my very early teens.

I took my first typing class my sophomore year of high school and that is when I met Mrs. Shirley Shadish. She was young-ish and I thing her husband also taught in my high school. Taking typing, I realized I was really good at something. I moved on to the continuing classes and also took shorthand with Mrs. Shadish in my junior and senior year. I think she liked me because I was eager to learn and in turn she encouraged me to keep it up.

This was in the 1970s when there were actually 2 year secretarial degrees! I went to college and received my degree. I never used shorthand after I graduated from college but I still love typing and I put that to good use over the 40 years I have worked in businesses – others and my own.