Steve Jobs could be seen as one of the most successful people with his growing company of Apple. His business has made billions of dollars off the well-loved products Jobs has come up with, although all that success does not just appear out of thin air. Jobs has had to go through more than his share of obstacles and complications but hard work comes with its rewards. Not all geniuses graduated from a university and Jobs was a perfect example. Life as a college student just did not suite him. The required classes were not of his interests so he saw no point in attending them and wasting money. He had to think about the risks of dropping out and return into the real world without a degree to help him find a job.
“And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents’ savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn’t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out…So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK.”
-Steve Jobs
-Steve Jobs
It’s hard to imagine that Jobs was, at some point, not a part of Apple when he is the first person most people think about when the company comes up. In 1985, John Sculley and the board decided to oust Jobs out of his own business. This left him feeling betrayed and depressed but he did not let that get to him for too long. His time away let him try his hand on Pixar and NeXT , and he later stated that getting fired was probably the best thing that happened to him, even if at one point it was a great obstacle in his life.
“But I was, you know, asked to move out of my office… And I would get depressed and go home in three or four hours, really depressed. I did that a few times and I decided that was mentally unhealthy."
-Steve Jobs
-Steve Jobs
His cancer was discovered with a routine abdominal scan. Although it was a rare and treatable tumor, there was talk that Jobs was considering to not have it surgically removed because he was Buddhist and skeptical of mainstream medical procedures. He tried a special diet to deter from having to get the operation, but he still had to have the surgery. In 2004, Jobs announced that he had to deal with a deathly illness, but he was rid of it now. However that will be proven untrue when he passes away from the cancer in 2011 after he resigned from his post as CEO of Apple. This would be a hardship for Jobs because he could no longer focus on work and producing products for Apple. He had to worry about his health and family and let someone else take over his position.
“Jobs likes to make his own rules, whether the topic is computers, stock options, or even pancreatic cancer.”
-Peter Eldkind
-Peter Eldkind