Steve Jobs’ 1973 job application fetches $174,000 at auction
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A handwritten job application from Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has sold for more than $174,000, according to auction house RR Auction. The company told Reuters that the winning bidder is an Internet entrepreneur from England who doesn't want to be publicly identified.
The single-page document, dated to 1973, doesn't identify what job Jobs was applying for. But it provides a window into how Jobs-who would have been 17 or 18 at the time-saw himself.
Jobs identifies himself as an English literature major at Reed College. He officially dropped out of Reed after a single semester in the fall of 1972, but he continued staying with friends on campus and auditing classes in 1973.
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