I used to temp in grad school. To get hired by the temp agency, I had to pass a high words-per-minute test with minimum errors on a typewriter, even though at home I was doing my writing already on a personal computer. (And printing on a dot-matrix printer, another lost technology.) The expectation was that you would be sent out to jobs where you were typing for managers and bosses, or maybe doing data entry. (In the end, I did both.)