LETUSREASON
I'm going to say it, knowing full well I'll get into trouble, but to answer your question, Christine, if I may borrow a few words from Mr. Pink of "Reservoir Dogs": "Learn to fuckin' type."
I know, I know, that's a sexist thing to say. But I know from personal experience, data entry jobs still exist in this country. Believe me, I've been working one for damn near ten years now.
Err, I hope you know my comment was made in jest.
Also, I couldn't help it, but the first thing which came to my mind when you wrote about "learning how to type" was famous sex scandal about a Congressman and his "on his payroll" lover Elizabeth Ray. You probably don't remember her but her line about not knowing how to type was a classic -- and also cost the Congressman his job. (She was hired as a secretary but couldn't even type. But then she wasn't given that job for her "typing skills." lol)
(Wikipedia) Elizabeth Ray
Elizabeth Ray (born Betty Lou Ray on 14 May 1943 in Marshall, North Carolina was the central figure in a much publicized sex scandal in 1976 that ended the career of U.S. Rep. Wayne Hays (D-Ohio).
The Washington Post reported that Ray had been on the payroll of a committee run by Hays for two years as a clerk-secretary. During that time, she admitted, her actual job duties were providing Congressman Hays sexual favors:
"I can't type, I can't file, I can't even answer the phone."
After the scandal broke, a book appeared in her name, entitled "The Washington Fringe Benefit"; she posed for Playboy several times, and tried acting and stand-up comedy....
