I look like an accountant. And no offense to accountants! There's some really cool accountants out there.
Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.
Prior to 1980, people used to dictate to a secretary for preparing written documents and that person would then punch keys on a typewriter. I was inspired to invent a medium for doing this work by engaging just one person.
Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.
When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor's office she was working at. I was a file clerk. No disrespect but I don't think a man can do that job. It takes so much meticulous and precise file-keeping.
I've always been interested in the office. I was a secretary a long time ago, and I've always been into paperwork. My first secretarial job was 1965 or 1966.
I have seen cabinet secretaries who type with two fingers.
You've got to be happy if they get your facts right. Since January I don't think I've recognized a damned thing that I've filed. I just pour everything out of the boot. Otherwise you get a phone call at three in the morning asking why you left out that the candidate had his teeth drilled that morning.
I do not have very much office experience.
There's a great deal of suspicion and misunderstanding about IT among practicing doctors. One hears things like, 'I don't want to be turned into a data entry clerk, and I don't want some machine between me and my patients.'
When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages--hate them to the death.
I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.
You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork.
I started out as a receptionist. I typed, I filed, I answered the phones for a little nine-person company.
I'm the computer operator for Operation Rescue National.
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him enter regional distribution codes in data field 97 to facilitate regression analysis on the back end.
I'm really fortunate that I type 120 words a minute.
Frank liked administrative work and was good at it.
I did a lot of blue collar work. I also worked as a temp. I did, you know, light construction and cleaning. I did clerical temping. I also fix cars and motorcycles and electronics.
I go through all of my old notebooks, and I put an X on every page when everything has been entered into the computer, and sometimes that takes 15 years. But eventually the notebooks are full of X's, and they're no good to me anymore.
The only thing I can do is type. I learned that when I was 13.
All of the men on my staff can type.
My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.
Samasource creates jobs in regions where more traditional forms of employment in low-income economies, such as manufacturing, are difficult to scale because of poor infrastructure. In a village in Rukka, India, for example, our small data entry partner employs over 60 people doing various types of Internet research for Samasource.
