Task (1b)

Steve Jobs

Introduction

Early Life

Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California, to Joanne Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali. His parents were graduate of University of Wisconsin who later gave their unnamed son up for adoption. His father, Jandali, was a Syrian political science professor, and his mother, Schieble, worked as a speech therapist. Short while, after Steve was placed for adoption, his biological parents married and had another child, Mona Simpson. It was not until his late twenties that he was able to discover information about his biological parents which he never knew about during his childhood days.

In addition, Steve was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs which later named him Steven Paul Jobs. His adopted mom worked as an accountant and Paul was a Coast Guard veteran and machinist. Steve and his family lived in Mountain View, California, an area which later becomes known as Silicon Valley. As a boy, Steve and his father worked on electronics in the family garage. Paul showed his son how to take apart and reconstruct electronics, a hobby that changed the live of Jobs for the rest of his life which gave a lot of confidence in what he was doing.

Moreover, Jobs was always innovative thinker and an intelligent, his teenager life was filled with frustrations over formal schooling. In his elementary days all he did was prank his school mates due to boredom, and during his fourth-grade some of his teachers will bribe him in order to study which was quite funny. Jobs tested so well, however, that administrators wanted to skip him ahead to high school—a proposal that his parents declined. He also never had good time in his school days until he got introduced to his future partner Steve Wozniak, who was attending the University of California, Berkeley.