Thank you for reading this …
After a long and very rewarding career I have
entered retirement (kicking and screaming), but
am in need of further income. I’ve come up with
one more hare-brained scheme. Please help me
evaluate it.
I’ve had four years of schooling in German, and
in the process have learned to type in that language reasonably well. Years ago (during the
Fischer era)I was being considered by a news-
paper as a chess editor. A large portion of
chess literature is written in Russian, and
after learning the rudiments of that language
I purchased a cyrillic typewriter, and found
that touch typing in that language was also
not difficult.
Do you think it would be feasible to offer my
Microsoft Word expertise as a relatively slow
typist to second language Oklahomans who might
not have access to an appropriate keyboard?
(Or to a computer, for that matter.) 11% of
Oklahomans are foreign born, and 20% speak a
second language at home (largely Spanish). Word
supports dozens of languages. It would entail a
continuous learning exercise for me, and it
would be hard to imagine a more rewarding way
to spend the rest of my life.
I hope you may live long enough to also face
these sorts of problems. Thank you,
Bert Rackett
