Bill Gates’ resume from the 1970s shows his old home address, height, weight, and salary.
The co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, doesn’t need a new job. However, he still has his old resume ready! Gates shared his old resume on LinkedIn recently. He wrote that people today who have attended some college have a better resume than he did 48 years ago.
Although he says that, we can see that Gates was a student at Harvard University at that time. He also had experience with many types of computers and programming languages from that time period. Better than most people today!
He also helped lead a project at his high school that earned him more than $10,000. Additionally, he had a partnership with Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with Gates, for designing a system to study road and highway traffic.
That is all impressive information, but many people are surprised by the personal data on the resume. He wrote his height, 5-foot-10-inches tall (about 1.78m), and weight, 130 pounds (around 59kg). He also wrote his salary, which was $12,000 USD a year. It was still his first year at university.
Gates also wrote that he could work anywhere on his resume. Eventually, Gates and Paul Allen started Microsoft in New Mexico, USA, in 1975 and then moved the company to Washington state near Seattle.
On LinkedIn, somebody commented that a $12,000 USD salary 48 years ago was amazing for a new graduate.
It looks like Gates’ resume was typed on a typewriter, which was normal in 1974. It was Gates and others during that period who helped make PCs popular soon after.
We can also see his old home address on the resume. It was his parents’ house near Seattle which recently sold for $2.6 million USD.
VOCABULARY
- Resume (résumé) – CV (curriculum vitae); life history; work history
- Founder – a person who starts a new company
- Programming language – language or code that controls machines and computers (Java, Python, C++, etc.)
- Earn – to get money for service or work; get; receive; collect
- Partnership – a business with two or more owners/founders
- Graduate – a person who completed a study course or school; a person with a university degree
- Typewriter – a machine used for typing before computers
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