Steve Jobs’ disastrous application will be auctioned again starting today
Steve Jobs was considered a perfectionist. (Photo: Apple)
No time right now?
Spelling mistakes and flippant answers in the application letter are evidence of indifference. Such a document is now being auctioned and it comes from none other than Apple founder Steve Jobs.
When Steve Jobs started something, it was often uncompromising. The components of his computers were often the most expensive and noble on the market. He gave everything and rarely let himself be spoken to. It was different a few years earlier with a letter of application that was eagerly traded among fans of the new Apple founder. It is bursting with spelling errors and shows a job that must have been in a rare indifferent phase. Starting with the name (he wrote “Steven jobs” with a lowercase “j”) to contact options (phone: “None”) and ending with the address (“reed college”), he made it easy for himself. The document will now be auctioned again between February 24 and March 24, 2021.
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Steve Jobs’ résumé: At 18, rather indifferent
Steve Jobs’ résumé doesn’t look what you’d expect. (Photo: RR Auction)
The application letter called wealthy collectors on the scene in the past. It already went under the hammer for 18,750 US dollars in 2017, and in 2018 for a whopping 175,000 dollars. According to experts, a six-figure sum is being targeted again during the current auction. Interested parties can bid from today. The Chatterfields auction house is responsible for the trade. It is also particularly interesting that Steve Jobs created the application document by hand and signed it. So it is easy to identify. On the other hand, it is not clear to whom he has applied. The job was obviously not important to him.
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Steve Jobs filled out the application letter in 1973 when he was 18 years old. At the time he was at Reed College studying English and Literature. However, even then, his real interest must have been in design and technology, as the document shows. Under skills, he ticked both “computer” and “calculator”. He himself added “Design” and “Tech” by hand. Jobs was interested in a position as an “electrical engineer” or “design engineer”. Who could have guessed at the time that only three years later he would found Apple with his founding friend Steve Wozniak and lay the foundation for a billion-dollar company. In any case, the application at the time gave only a limited inkling of this.
