Jobs was just a few weeks younger than I am at 56. It was way too soon.
I really can't add anything of substance because it has already been said:
When he was 12, Jobs wrote to William Hewlett, co-founder of the Hewlett-Packard Co., seeking parts for a school project. The precocious youth ended up getting a summer job that would fan his love ofelectronics as well as introduce him to future Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, several years his senior, who worked for HP.
Jobs' fascination with the electronics industry stood in contrast to his disdain for an educational system which, as he told the Smithsonian, "came close to really beating any curiosity out of me." Nevertheless, when he graduated Homestead High School in Los Altos, class of 1972, true to their word his parents sent him to the school of his choice, Reed College, an expensive liberal arts institute in Oregon.
As Jobs told Stanford University students in a now-famous 2005 commencement speech, he dropped out after one semester. "All of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition," he said. "I couldn't see the value in it."
His biological father lives in Reno.
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