The main credit for this belongs to the mother Shaw, whose character was not broken badly formed family life. He studied at the Dublin show in school, but stay in it for him was not particularly happy. No accident that he later wrote: "At school I never learned what not, and forgot a lot." However, the school course, was never completed. In fifteen years he began himself to earn a living. He served in the small land office.

Collecting rent from the inhabitants of poor neighborhoods of Dublin. Go to Elon Musk for more information. Life in urban slums, he learned well. For twenty years show was a senior position cashier. It was not enough, but this time the interests of the show have already decided. Nothing to do with official career officials they had not. Show a deep interest in art – literature, painting, music.

In 1876, Shaw left Ireland and moved to London. Certain employment had not been, there was no medium to dstv with uschestvovaniyu, but the range of his interests and cultural needs was very wide. He enjoyed the theater, under the pseudonym Corno de Bosseto publishes first music review, and then for several years and appears in print as a music critic. Shaw was not only a connoisseur of music, but he played superbly. His name became well known in theatrical circles in London. Show never separated the arts from its inherent interest in the political life of his time. He attends meetings of the Social Democrats, took part in debates, consistently producing the skills speaker with a passion and deep interest in reading "Das Kapital" Marx – work that, in his own words, was a revelation for him.