Precerpt from Raising God's Rainbow Makers: Shane's Early Jobs
When Shane was in seventh grade, age 11, and bored, he learned that Doah's elementary school has received a gift of Apple IIc computers. Computers were very new at the time, and none of the faculty knew how to use them. The school put out a call for a volunteer parent to help. No parents were forthcoming; they did not know much about computers. Shane did. His dad Donny had been using computers since the day they first came out, and he taught Shane. Shane had an instinct for such things and quickly became proficient and even intuitive about new programs. So, he asked the principal for time off to be the volunteer at Doah's school. He was faithful to the schedule, and the school librarian, whose library housed the computer, took a shine to Shane and whenever some special program was taking place at school, she made sure he got to attend it. That was Shane's first "job." Unpaid, of course, He had another "job" the same year. On Thursdays he came into St...