As far back as the 70’s every student had to learn how to draw/print the alphabet letters and print each one just so. Then in time, the same student would learn how to cursive write.
I loved learning how to cursive write. As a teenager and even to this day I practice on new forms of cursive writing. I heard this week that public schools will no longer teach children how to write cursive. How sad.
I guess cursive writing is going the bye-way just like shorthand did. I always wanted to learn shorthand. When I finally went to school to learn it I was told that the class would no longer be offered as very few business were using it. Instead they were teaching abbreviated writing which I learned and use to this day.
The administrative part of Real Estate is like that. It is my understanding that prior to HAR we had books in which listings were placed. I have only been in the business for six years and I have no idea how those books worked. I do not know of anyone who is using them today.
Aps come and go. New approaches are tried and tested; some stay for a while and then go. Others never quite make it.
My daughter told me that typing was no longer being taught in high schools because of the touch screen. Now I don’t know about that and I am going to have to check and see if this is true. I think everyone needs to type. But she said the 10-digits would no longer be used. Imagine that.
So all I can see is that Real Estate too will change, some for the better and the not so “better” will go by the way side, pushed aside by something else ---- and we Realtors® will move on.
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