Typing Job At Home

When the keys go silent...

The media reported the closure of the last typewriter factory in the world, Godrej and Boyce in Shirwal near Pune though it turned out nearly 10,000 machines till 14 months ago. Ask any journalist or typist, he could narrate dozens of stories about his “best professional friend”. That is why it is surprising that not a single village in my home town, Palakkad, named any of its villages after Christopher Scholes, who in 1868, patented the first typewriter. Five years later Remington Arms Co., Pennsylvania, began manufacturing the machine and there was no looking back.

Never ending streams of SSLC passed boys, Ambi, Naanu, Subbudu, Pichandi and the rest of the gang joined Shorthand and Typewriting Institutes, passed their “Lower” and “Higher” examinations and took off to Mumbai. When they returned on leave, they were a changed lot, smoking outside their homes and boasting about making it out with short-skirted girls. The typewriter impact had begun.

A place at home

My life was different because I went to college. But there was a “Royal” brand typewriter at home which my father occasionally used the Biblical system, “Seek and Thou shalt find”! I fiddled with it off and on but my real involvement with typewriters began only with my first job in an Ahmedabad textile mill where the typing pool was full of Palakadu boys. My work in the Purchase Section consisted of writing official letters to various suppliers and soon I found typing easier than writing by hand. The work was cleaner and there was no interruption to the flow of thoughts Thanks to my Typing Pool friends, I came to know a lot about typewriters.We had a Remington, Godrej, Halda, Underwood and other brands and each had his favorite typewriter which he fought to preserve. And why not? Ernest Hemingway made the most of his work on "Royal de Luxe" machine, while PG Wodehouse was based on a "monarch" Exceptions to the rule included John Steinbeck, who used pencils, 60 per day . When the edges of the hexagonal pencil injuries to fingers, he switched to the round pens. Steinbeck's no doubt won the literature "Nobel", but did not know what he had failed to write.

Career-wise, the typewriter was able to carry you. Part of lawyer Perry Mason's successes was his incomparable secretary, Della Street, a first rate typist, her speed at the keyboard matching Mason's swift legal thinking. Snoopy, the wonder dog in the Peanuts comic strip immortalised the famous first lines of his novel when he typed out the lines, “It was a dark and stormy night.

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In Careers / Recruitment    (submitted 2011-07-08)

We are at the age of internet boom and online typing jobs are the result of such advancement and its growing popular these days but the major audience of internet are not aware of such program they generally waste their time in downloading music and other social networking website (Like Facebook, twitter) While they can use that time in earning online by online typing jobs. Internet has become a great platform for freelance workers for those people know how to actually do it. Some of the successful freelance workers are now earning a full time income from such a great program.

These typing jobs are not concentrated for specific country. Online typing job can be done by anyone of any country but you must have accurate and fast typing sill. Most of the online employers are looking for such candidates who have strong English because English is the most deamded languae on the web.

Who are the employers?

Web is all about publishing information whether it is for a specific product or an article so to type this information hiring a typist is a must. So who hires online typist?

1)Online Shopping Store Companies: Today there are lots of online stores like go.com and small software sites these sites need description for their product. Hence these companies hire freelance writers.

2)Bigger Blogs: Blogs like problogger, shoemoney, extreme john are some of the biggest blogs on web. These blogs have large reader base and attracts millions of page views as so they require daily fresh content. These blog have their personal job board where you can apply for the job.

3)Forum Site: There are millions of forums on the internet. As forum is all about community which is build by active posters that can post on forums. Posting on forums doesn’t mean that you start spamming these forums you need to post quality post to get paid by the employers.

4)Classified sites: I am sure you have visited a classified website. Classified website gets millions of post each day but newer website doesn’t have much user hence they also require poster that can post in their classified sites.

Apart from these posting jobs there are other jobs online such as logo designing, web designing, graphic and flash designing if you have any of these skills you can work as a freelancer.

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