THE EARLY LIFE OF APPLE’S FATHER

Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24th, 1955 in San Francisco, California. His parents were Joanne Schieble (later Joanne Simpson) and Abdulfattah “John” Jandali. They were graduate students at the University of Wisconsin. They decided to give their unnamed son up for adoption. His father, Jandali, was a Syrian political science professor, and his mother, Schieble, worked as a speech therapist. Shortly after Steve was placed for adoption, his biological parents married and had another child, Mona Simpson. At first, Steve didn’t know the truth about his biological parents. He was able to uncover information about them later when he was 27. Clara and Paul Jobs adopted and named him. Clara worked as an accountant, and Paul was a Coast Guard veteran and machinist. The family lived in Mountain View, California, within the area that would later become known as Silicon Valley. At first, Jobs worked on electronics in the family garage with his father. Paul showed his son how to take apart and reconstruct electronics. The hobby instilled confidence, tenacity and mechanical prowess in young Jobs. Jobs went to Homestead High School and then later enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Two months after starting, he dropped out of college and only returned to the school to drop in on some creative classes. In 1974, Jobs took a position as a video game designer with Atari. Several months later he left the company to find spiritual enlightenment in India. Two years after that, in 1976, when Jobs was just 21, he and Wozniak started Apple Computer. The duo started in the Jobs’ family garage funding their venture by Jobs selling his Volkswagen bus and Wozniak selling his beloved scientific calculator.