Twist of fate or destiny?

The importance of computer literacy today is like what literacy (in whatever official language) was in the ’50s and ‘60s. You are likely to lose out if you are not literate.

While there is no doubt that knowledge is very important, does literacy in a language or in IT vital for success? In terms of financial success, not necessarily so, according to this story:

An unemployed applies at Microsoft for the position of janitor.

The HR chief invites him to an interview and subjects him to some tests.

Then he tells him, “You’ve got the job, just give me your email address so that I can send you the employment contract as well as the day and time when to start.

The man is distraught and answers that he has no computer and therefore also no email.

The HR boss tells him that if he has no email address he virtually does not exist and therefore cannot hold a job.

The man leaves in a desperate mood without knowing what to do with his last $10 in his pocket. Finally, he decides to go into a supermarket to buy a 10lb box of strawberries.

He starts out with door to door calls in order to sell those strawberries by the pound. He manages to double his capital in 2 hours. He repeats the deal 3 times more and goes home with $60 in his pocket.

He starts every day earlier and comes home every day later. So he triples or quadruples his money every day.

A short time later he buys a wheel barrow, then exchanges it later into a truck, and later is the owner of a complete fleet of delivery trucks.

5 years went by.

The man is now the owner of one of the largest food chain in the USA.

Now he starts thinking about the future for him and his family and decides to buy a life insurance.

He calls an agent and selects a good policy. At the end of the negotiation, the agent asks him for his email address to send him a confirmation of the policy.

The man tells him that he doesn’t have an email address!

That’s strange, says the agent, you have no email and nevertheless you built this large empire. Can you imagine where you would be if you had an email?
The man briefly thinks and then answers:

I WOULD BE A TOILET CLEANER AT MICROSOFT!

Morals of the story:

1.The internet does not solve all the problems in our lives
2.When you have no email but work hard, you can become a millionaire.
3.You received the story by the internet, therefore you are closer to a janitor than to a millionaire!

If we were to change the ‘email or internet’ to ‘literacy’, the late Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong would have agreed.