Childhood: Entry 1

Paul Jobs and his son

Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California. He was born into insecurity because at birth, his unwed biological parents gave him up for adoption.  His mother was still in school and his father was a Syrian. Instead of bringing embarrassment to the family, they thought it was best to give him up. Throughout his story, he has a rather bitter personality with a short temper. It’s easy to understand that the bitterness all stemmed from his childhood when his parents gave him up. A couple named Paul and Sarah Jobs raised him as an infant in Mountain View. This area became known as Silicon Valley in the early 1950s after the sprouting of a myriad of semi-conductor companies. As a result, young Steve Jobs grew up in a neighborhood of engineers working on electronics and other gizmos in their garages on weekends. This shaped his interest in the field as he grew up.  His parents didn’t have very much money and once when a teacher asked him a question in class, he responded by saying, “Why are we so broke?” He was a temperament kid from the start. He jammed bobby pins into an electric outlet and burned his hand once. He had to have his stomach pumped after he drank ant poison. “He was so difficult as a child,” his mother said. She even said that by the time he was two years old, she and her husband felt like they had made a mistake and wanted to return him.  

Sources: allaboutSteveJobs.com, Encyclopedia Britannica-Steve Jobs