I don't think it's common now, but it used to be a really common type of job.
Basically all those secretarial-type jobs—which used to be quite a bit of the workforce—went away, replaced by making experts use computers themselves, to enter data into usually-shitty-and-time-wasting systems. It's my understanding that a lot of the folks who are old enough to have done both despise the new system.
Many of the doctors I have interacted with at Kaiser refuse to use the computer and ask someone else to come enter the notes and data while they examine me or my wife.
Many of the doctors I have interacted with at Kaiser refuse to use the computer and ask someone else to come enter the notes and data while they examine me or my wife.
My mom had a job like this at a big bank.
The first thing she would do each morning is print out the e-mails for one of the V.P.'s.
The last thing she would do in the afternoon is take the dictation of his replies, and then send them as e-mails.
It's one of the reasons I roll my eyes when I see people on TV and the internet pretending to be "rich" with their multi-thousand dollar cell phones and gadgets.
Really rich people, and I mean really rich people, barely use electronics. They have people to do those things for them.
