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> History has never been something that really interests me, that's all.

Well, perhaps you should expand your horizons a little bit. Knowing how 
things came to be is more than often very illuminating, even from a personal 
perspective. You're missing a lot.

Of course, from a professional perspective, be very careful about displaying 
your ignorance of trade matters. An employer just looking for some anonymous 
codemonkey may not care, but if you're looking for something a little more 
ambitious, not knowing who Steve Jobs and RMS are could be downright lethal 
in an interview, because it would reveal a deep lack of curiosity and 
interest *** in your own trade ***. For instance, not knowing about Stallman 
means that you never wondered and read about open source software licenses 
and the world of issues surrounding them. Not knowing about Steve Jobs means 
that you never got remotely interested and read anything about Apple 
software and hardware, even in mainstream newspapers.

Nothing wrong with that of course, but even if these particular points 
wouldn't interest me as an employer, I'd be wondering about the many other 
basic trade issues you'd be ignorant and unwilling to learn about, and that 
would drastically decrease your employability - once I'd picked my jaw up 
from the floor and sent a witty note my coworkers about the strange chap who 
just left my office ;)

G.

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