My mother made me take typing in summer school when I was 11 (late 60s), because she didn't want me wasting an actual class on it, but I needed to learn because she wasn't going to type any papers for me. I was peeved, to say the least, but later I was ever-so thankful! It was so helpful in school, through my retail career, through my banking career and now... well, it doesn't really matter now in my financial/accounting career because everything is so computerized. I finally let them take my adding machine (god, I loved it!) and replaced it with a mini adding machine/calculator. It's tough to use the keys on it without looking, but I really don't need it that often anymore.
But I feel accomplished because I don't have to look at my computer keyboard. So there!