Early Life
Joanne Schiedle, was unmarried and therefore didn’t want the child. She was looking for someone to adopt him and fortunately, Clara and Paul Jobs were desperate for a new born. However, when she found out they had both puled out of high school, she refused to sign the adoption papers. The standoff lasted two weeks until Joanne relented at the couples promise to make a savings account for the boy’s college funds even though they weren’t particularly wealthy. It wasn’t until his thirty’s that Jobs met his real mother, Joanne Simpson (as she was called before she was married).

Jobs knew from an early age that he was adopted, as his parents were always quite open with it. He once said ‘I never felt abandoned, even though I was different from the rest of the kids’. However, he does remember sitting in the front garden talking and playing with a girl from across the road. When he told the girl he was adopted, she said ‘So does that mean your parents really didn’t want you?’ Jobs ran inside crying and his parents reassured him by saying ‘We specifically picked you out’.

Job’s dad always tried to get his son into cars, which was his personal passion, but Jobs was never interested. Instead, his dad provided him with small, broken electronic gismos, which he took apart. Jobs always considered himself lucky to be growing up in Santa Clara Valley, a place where there were many other engineers and people who shared his interests. Jobs once called Bill Hewlett the founder of a rapidly growing company, HP. They talked for at least twenty minutes on the phone and by the end of the call, Jobs had secured a summer job and Bill said he would give him some spare parts to tinker with.

In the war, Jobs’ dad was a coast guard. The ironic thing was, he could never swim. After the conflict, he wanted to find a wife and settle down in a house. Paul Jobs was an engineer at