I am potentially one of the least technical people in my generation. I’m 30 and I am afraid of my cellphone, my laptop, Netflix, the microwave…. Okay, afraid is maybe a strong word, but baffled by them at the very least.
In high school, while my classmates wrote most of their papers and assignments on the computer, I insisted on writing everything out by hand and only typed it out afterwards if absolutely required. It wasn’t that I had issues with typing – my mom who worked as an administrator for many years made sure that I learned to type from a very young age and I type quickly with a reasonable amount of accuracy. I just felt that writing by hand kept me more “connected” to the words I penned. Simply, my name is Sarah and I am a Luddite.
After high school I studied journalism for a couple of years and then entered the workforce into a number of different jobs, such as in sales and marketing and it became necessary …
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