A handwritten job application by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, which is approximately over four decades old, will go up for auction next month. The estimated value of the one-page application is roughly $50,000. The document will be part of a pop culture sale by RR Auction that will take place between March 8 and 15.
A handwritten job application by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, which is approximately over four decades old, will go up for auction next month. The estimated value of the one-page application is roughly $50,000. The document will be part of a pop culture sale by RR Auction that will take place between March 8 and 15.
According to the listing on the website, Jobs had filed out the one-page application from 1973, complete with spelling and punctuation errors, including listing his name as ‘Steven jobs’ and address as ‘reed college’.
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Under a section titled “Special Abilities,” Jobs wrote “tech or design engineer. digital.—from Bay near Hewitt-Packard,” a reference to pioneering California technology company Hewlett-Packard.
Steve Jobs had enrolled at Reed College for the fall semester in 1972, but dropped out after just six months to preserve his parents’ meager funds. However, he hung around campus for a year and a half to audit creative courses, including classes on Shakespeare, dance, and calligraphy.
In his 2005 Stanford commencement speech, Jobs said, “If I had never dropped in on that single calligraphy course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.”
In 1974, Jobs put his technical skills to work and secured a job as a technician at Atari, heavily relying on the help of Steve Wozniak. In 1976, Jobs and Wozniak set out on their own and founded Apple, introducing the personal computer to the masses.
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