This is Mike Rowe of the show “Dirty Jobs.”
In this video he gives a speech about our conceptions and misconceptions about work. Very interesting. I already liked him and his show, but after this vid I like him even more!
This is Mike Rowe of the show “Dirty Jobs.”
In this video he gives a speech about our conceptions and misconceptions about work. Very interesting. I already liked him and his show, but after this vid I like him even more!
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June 5, 2010 at 7:06 pm
Totally agreed. What a great video! Of course as a college educated person it's easy to sit around and talk, but what's the problem with people not going to college and getting professional qualifications? If we gave excellent secondary school education across the board, and valued all the jobs and work, and were just generally more active, well, I think we'd be happier and healthier, in many ways, and both on the individual and society level. Way to go, Mike Rowe.
June 5, 2010 at 9:04 pm
I liked it so much that I made my kids watch it. Thanks for sharing.
June 5, 2010 at 11:01 pm
Great video! There was a time when kids were told that if they wanted a job worth having they had to go to college. Two of my brothers went to a community college to get training in automotive and diesel mechanics. Both are ASE certified and work hard at their "dirty jobs" with a work ethic I'd love to see more people display. Another brother apprenticed himself to a carpenter and became one himself, as well as a construction contractor. Another brother works as a garbage collector and a volunteer firefighter. All are fun-loving and hard-working guys. All love to hunt together (elk and deer, mostly). All are faithful husbands and fathers with a rock solid work ethic and a healthy attitude towards work.
I went to college and earned two bachelors degrees, and the best thing about those is the fact that here in Minnesota, it gets me off the hook for providing quarterly reports for my homeschooled kids. I'm hoping I use them more as I teach over the years, but my son, who's an Aspie, has absolutely NO appreciation for figurative language (metaphors are anathema to this boy–like dropping a match into a propane tank).
I have to save this video, though, and I'll be looking for more. Thanks!
June 6, 2010 at 12:23 am
Classics Scholar
Eagle Scout
Nuff Said
June 7, 2010 at 2:54 pm
Going to show it to my son as a rationale for getting him outside to paint the deck. Loved It!
June 8, 2010 at 2:13 am
LOL SherryTex!
Why is it that we've labeled the "greatest generation" those who fought and lived during the Second World War? I believe because they exuded this philosophy that Mike is talking about…Work hard, do your duty to God, your family, your country, and make the most of the gifts you have with the two hands you have been given. And I'm talking about men and women. I so look up to this generation, and am ashamed I do it from the comfort of my fanny writing about them on my laptop. I guess it would be emulation (imitation right?) that I should strive for more. At least it would help me get my housework done more readily!
June 9, 2010 at 4:02 am
What a fantastic presentation. He has a cool sense of authority that is so much missing these days.
June 17, 2010 at 5:38 pm
That was inspiring.
October 29, 2010 at 10:22 pm
I grew up on a farm and I remember the process he talks about, well not the castration part as we mostly had ewes not rams, we just did the tails. It sounds cruel but the fact is leaving it on there is worse. An undocked (cropped) tail tends to get covered in feces which then allows worms and maggots to set in which can spread up along the sheep's rump under the wool which is truly cruel. The band method is by far the most cruel inhumane way to remove the tail. The animal is essentially in agony for days even weeks. The knife hurts but it's momentary, kind of like ripping off a band aid versus the slow peel. Don't get me wrong, this was one of my least favorite things to do on the farm. I love animals and this always struck me as an awful process but the end result is for the best. All this said I lived on a very small family farm. It would be considered a niche organic farm by US standards (I'm from Ireland) so we had more time to care for individual animals. I've done lots of the fun dirty stuff, birthing lambs, cattle and horses. Raising lambs that were born too weak or rejected by the mother. I never loved farm work but now that I'm a little older, I work in a city at a desk job I'm very proud of my family's farming background.