A Brief Biography Of Steve Jobs

On February 24th, in San Francisco California Steve Jobs was born to Joanne Schieble and Abdul Fattah Jabali. Joanne was a speech therapist and Abdul Fattah was a political science professor of Syrian decent (Isaacson 2011). His mother was raised in Wisconsin in a family of German Decent and his father came from a prominent and rich family Syrian family with 9 children. His mother was a strict Muslim housewife and there was a lot of importance put on education in the house. Not long after his birth Steve, a nameless baby still, was given up for adoption. Clara and Paul Jobs who named him Steven Paul Jobs adopted him. Many say Steve’s father Paul lit the fire of interest in electronics in Steve’s mind and often encouraged him to experiment with these things. Job’s adopted father was not a college graduate and had grown up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin with an alcoholic father. His mother was a daughter of Armenian immigrants who had just fled the Turks and come to America. They were married within ten days of meeting each other. They had a happy marriage but due to having an ectopic pregnancy in the past, Clara was unable to conceive. (Isaacson 2011). So in 1955 they were looking to adopt. They were blessed with Steve.
Steve lived a happy life with his adopted parents in Mountain View, a small town near Silicon Valley. Even though he lived a nice and comfortable life Steve always knew he was adopted and this put a burden on him as a child where he had been made fun of because his parent’s “Hadn’t wanted him”. His adopted parents however made it clear to Steve from a young age that they had chose him specially and this lit a light bulb in Steve’s head from a young age that he was special. Steve was later described by Controlling an...

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... as a “glorified calculator” but he loved it and seeing it was a significant part of his life. The club often did projects and Job’s was to make a frequency counter. To gather parts Steve called up the CEO of HP, Bill Hewlett. They talked for a bit and after offering Steve the parts he also got him a job working at the company making frequency counters. In high school Steve took electronics class with the professor named McCollum. The teacher was very strict while Steve had no respect for authority. Steve only ended up taking the class for a year. It was not however a total waste because while he was there he met Steven Wozniak, a teacher’s pet and a complete electronic genius. Wozniak and Jobs met through a mutual friend named Fernandez whom Wozniak had already been working on electronic projects with. Both major pranksters Wozniak and Jobs hit it off right away.