Education firing

I am possibly the worst typist in Australia.  I spent one year learning to type and managed to score a job at the Education Department.  I was so excited about having a job and thought it would be wonderful.  What is was, was boring.  I had to type up lists of names at first and then after a minute promotional I had to type out wages cheques for teachers.  Now this is in the olden days when typewriter had ribbons.  There was no going back and fixing anything and with one mistake on the cheque it could be validated by the higher ups in my little office.  If two mistakes were made the cheque had to be cancelled.  Needless to say I would have at least ten cheques in every batch cancelled.  I could see our supervisor going in to the manager's office with a wad of my cheques and every one of my mistakes sticking out.  We were only allowed one cancellation in a hundred, one in ten was not tolerated. The more I got into trouble the worse my typing became.  Finally things came to a head and I entered the 'was I jumped or was I pushed' brigade.  I jumped.  All the girls in the typing pool wanted me to go to the union but I really hated that damned job.  I was embarrassed about losing the position so told everyone that I was bored and I just left.  In three weeks I managed to get a job with Customs and Excise as a Clerical Assistant and of course no more typing.   I loved Customs so even though my entry into the work force was not propitious I found my feet.