Steve Wozniak As An Engineer Of Apple

Engineer, inventor, computer programmer are three elements that describe Steve Wozniak. Many people know that Steve Wozniak was an engineer of Apple, but he was so much more. As a well known engineer of Apple, Steve Wozniak, showed Americans that technology could benefit them in their daily lives. His legacy showed us to not give up when you fail.
The early life of Steve Wozniak’s call to change started when he figured out that people could not afford to buy a lot of technology, and decided he wanted to help. His parents taught him to always try his best in everything he does. His dad, Francis Jacob Wozniak, came from Michigan and was an engineer. Because of the job he had, it caught Wozniak’s interest so Wozniak wanted to learn more.
One of the goals he achieved was finally finishing a device that hacks into phone lines to make free long-distance calls known as the blue box. (Doeden, pg 13) Steve Wozniak quotes, “I simply took a year off to earn money for my fourth year of school. And then my career kept going up.” (Seiter, Website) This quote is showing that he achieved his goal to earn money and use that money to go to college and learn about technology and engineering. The technology he made and the goals that were a success were all achievements that he had finished during his lifetime.
Steve Wozniak’s career was full of traveling and excitement. Steve Wozniak attended so many colleges. He first went to Colorado for college in his first year, then De Anza Community College for his second year, and then for his 3rd year, he went to Berkeley. (Wozniak and Smith, pg 71 and 119) He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and computer sciences. (Seiter, Website) After finishing Berkeley in June, Wozniak had to find a place where there are all technology people
He worked at a company called Electroglas. (Wozniak and Smith, pg 120) After Electroglas, he switched jobs to work at Hewlett-Packard in 1972 to make handheld calculators. (Lusted, pg 23) Steve Wozniak’s career even impacted himself to work harder on technology.
Steve Wozniak impacted society in many ways. One way will be by continuing a legacy for people in the future to look at. He wants other engineers to look back at his work and think, wow, he did some amazing engineering, soldering wires the right way, coding a certain way. (businessinsider.com, Website) He also continues his legacy by teaching computer programming in school. (allaboutthewoz.weekly.com, Website) While impacting society, there was an object much larger that were impacted by him.
He impacted the world! He did this by improving technology so people can drive in their car, text and call on their iPhones, and play video games on consoles to have entertainment. He impacted the world by changing technology design forever! (technologyconcepts.com, Website) He devoted his life to try and impact people and the world to be a better place. If you are reading this right now on a computer, think about how Steve Wozniak inspired other people, like engineers, to make technology better. If it wasn’t for Steve Wozniak’s genius mind, life would have been so much