Candy was excited to start typing class! At 15, she knew what she wanted: Marriage, two children, and a secretarial job. Typing was the magic key to her career.
She married. Divorced. Re-married, had two babies. Found ways to use her skills doing typing jobs at home.
Soon she had a business, to her astonishment. She had filing cabinets, customers, even a girl to answer the phone. Over time, she progressed to an electric typewriter, a word processor, a PC, a laptop.
Husband, children, career. Typing class really was the magic key to her happily ever after.
Just Writing! 
At least until Zing and Zang get into her keys
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A whole life in 100 words! Go Candy! A very upbeat encouraging read that made me smile – especially the bit about filing cabinets for some reason!
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Thanks. We need things to smile about right now.
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Education is the key, and the best way to empower the young. Nice story from the prompt.
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Thanks, Iain. You made the connection 🙂 Learning, however that happens, is always the key to tomorrow.
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She found self worth, self reliance and success through her own skill and hard work, not through other people, through marriage and kids. A truly heartening story
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Thanks, Lynn. That’s exactly the message I wanted to send.
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My pleasure
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I think I underestimated typing class. Now that you mention it, it has made my pursuit of a writing career much easier, at least the writing part.
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Seems to me that Candy had an approach that would have brought success even without typing class.
Feel-good tale, Linda
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Thanks. That’s what I felt was needed right now 🙂
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Yes, it’s amazing what can be achieved. Nicely told.
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Dear Linda,
Candy learned the basic skills, but chutzpah came from her innermost being. Good story.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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True. Someone else in similar circumstances may not have had such a good turnout.
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Uh huh. It is a marketable skill without question. I enjoyed your story, Linda.
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Thanks, Jade.
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You are welcome, Linda.
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Sometimes it only takes one seemingly supposedly small insignificant skill to get things rolling
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Yes. We could use something like right now.
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I hated typing lessons. But now I look back on them as the bedrock for the future I was to have. Nicely done.
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I actually enjoyed the class. Especially when those amazing new electric typewriters appeared 🙂
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I love how her life turned out to be more than just a typist. Who knew times would change so quickly.
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A very lifting story during these times! I always admire people who knew what they wanted to do at an early age. Other than unrealistic pipe dreams, I didn’t have a clue!
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I had a clue, but that was about it 🙂 I’ve actually had three careers, working on my fourth. Who says you have to be just one thing!
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I enjoyed your upbeat tale. Candy seized her opportunity with both hands, as it were. I very much liked the way you told us she made mistakes by telling us that she divorced her first husband. That human frailty makes her a much more rounded character.
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Nothing is ever perfect. It’s making the best of what isn’t perfect that makes life interesting 🙂
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I’m sure her story won’t end there. Delightful Linda.
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different stroks for different folks. glad she made it. 🙂
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Ha! Strokes 🙂 good one.
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Way to go, Candy. Yes, she learned her skills, yes she made some mistakes but she learned, moved forward and created her own dream… Lovely story, Linda.
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Thanks, Dale.
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Fabulous!
A true life built from such a great skill!
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Thanks 🙂
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Yes, the early skills we learn are the beginning and prove so important as we go through life. Nice take on the prompt
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Who’d a thunk that typing would be the key, so to speak!
Randy
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Many of we lads wished we’d taken typing classes when computers suddenly arrived!
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My grandkids, three of whom are homeschooled, learned to type with online computer typing classes. Amazing what you can learn on You Tube 🙂
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It starts somewhere. Great take to the prompt.
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You have got me thinking, which is good. ! The more avenues we try the more opportunities we may find. So I guess the more writing genres we attempt, the more chances that we we find success.
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Every time I step away a bit from my usual contributions here, go to the dark side now and then, I get MANY comments like “This was a surprise, coming from you!” I figure maybe I need to venture out of my norm more often, but the truth is, it’s hard for me. Need to stretch those mental muscles a bit 🙂
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Candy is an inspiration. Being determined on your life goals takes guts.
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Yes. Thanks, James.
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That’s a nice feel good story Linda.
In hindsight maybe I should have attended those typing classes my parents sent me to. Even after all these years working in technology I still need to look at the keyboard while working.
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I’ve never been sorry I learned to type –touch typing, as they called it then. Valuable, time-saving skill.
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It so often only takes that one thing, however insignificant it may seem to weave a consistent thread of happiness through our lives. Or that’s what you made me think anyway. Well written !
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Thank you, Russell. You nailed it 🙂
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Oh I assume that she had a few more skills that typing too… a good business sense at least. But every career starts with the first job.
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Love this 💕
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Most all the skills we pick up along the way become useful over time. I’ve found that to be try in my own life. Real life wisdom here!
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Thanks, Brenda 🙂
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A well-structured story with such a satisfying ending. Her path in life was anything but straight (like many of ours).
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Thanks, Margarisa.
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You’re welcome, Linda.
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