Special Edition - October 06 2011
How Steve Jobs Gave His Life for Mine
Peter,
Sorry this is a bit late. I was a little
too shaken to write it yesterday.
Back in the mid 1980's I was broke and
destitute. I was drowning in desperation,
living in a single room with a shared
bath, one rent payment away from
skid row.
I had been out of high school for a
decade. Hating my career as a cook by day,
and burned out from playing blues in bars
at night, I realized that I needed to go
back to college.
Sniffing around the federal employment
office I noticed a job posting for VidTex
operators. (It wasn't called desktop
publishing just yet.) After reading the
job description, I knew it would be
something I'd love to do.
My training was on a state of the art Mac
SE20. Graduating in 1988 at the top of
my class, I was given 21 dollars an hour
to start, at the first place I applied at.
Thanks to Adobe Postscript, Aldus
Pagemaker and most of all, Steve Jobs'
Apple Computer and Laserwriter, I was
in top demand.
I spent the next few years evangelizing
the Mac, training print shops and
traditional film strippers to make the
jump to digital. By 1993 I was head of
prepress and lead designer for a large
commercial printing plant.
In 1994 the commercial internet began.
While at the Seybold Publishing show in
San Francisco, I picked up the local
newspaper. The difference being, this
edition was published on CD with HTML
1.0 and read using the Mosaic browser.
I realized at that moment, power had
shifted. This was the most important
invention since Gutenberg's printing
press and movable type. My mind
sparked, remembering Mark Twain's
advice, "Find out where the people are
going and try to get there first."
I began to moonlight as a website designer
in 1994. By 1996 I left my full time job
at the printing plant and began my career
in SEO. I was so successful at it, that I
wrote a book about it in 1999 called,
"Nothing but 'Net" which became an instant
success, having been downloaded to date
over 1/2 a million times.
The rest - as they say - is history. But I
wouldn't have the freedom and lifestyle
that have today, without the Apple
products, that made it possible to live my
dream, starting with that Mac SE20 back
in 1988.
Besides my faith in God, I owe my success
and career largely to one person, Steve
Jobs. I am forever indebted and grateful,
for making my career possible, so I could
spend my life, doing what I love to do.
Thank you Steve Jobs for giving your life
to Apple, so I could have mine.
Michael
P.S.
I'll leave you with a snippet from
the original Steve Jobs Stanford
commencement speech from 2005...
You've got to find what you love.
Your work is going to fill a large part of
your life, and the only way to be truly
satisfied, is to do what you believe is
great work. And the only way to do great
work, is to love what you do.
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking
and don't settle. As with all matters of
the heart, you'll know when you find it.
And, like any great relationship, it just
gets better and better as the years roll
on. So keep looking until you find it.
Don't settle. ~ Steve Jobs
The full commencement speech is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
Thank you Steve. May you rest in peace
and may God bless.
Michael Campbell, CEO
Dynamic Media Corporation
Phone: +1 (360) 450-5880
Email: askmichael@mac.com
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