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Mike Rowe
American
Celebrity
Born:
Mar 18
,
1962
Good
Like
Me
People
Work
You
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There is a lot of stuff we can't control, but it is completely in our power to decide what the definition of what a good job is. That's up to us.
Mike Rowe
Good
Good Job
Job
Power
Control
Our
Definition
Stuff
Lot
Up
Decide
Us
In a very general way, our society has fallen out of love with the skilled trades. Part of the problem is a myriad of myths and misperceptions that surround the jobs themselves, but the biggest cause is our stubborn belief that a four-year degree is the best path for the most people.
Mike Rowe
Love
Best
People
Problem
Cause
Path
Degree
Society
Our
Way
Out
Jobs
General
Myriad
Stubborn
Myths
Part
Misperceptions
Most
Trades
Fallen
Surround
Very
Biggest
Themselves
Skilled
Belief
Four-Year
Stop looking for the 'right' career, and start looking for a job. Any job. Forget about what you like. Focus on what's available. Get yourself hired. Show up early. Stay late. Volunteer for the scut work. Become indispensable. You can always quit later, and be no worse off than you are today.
Mike Rowe
Work
Today
You
Yourself
Job
Focus
Looking
Become
Late
Later
Worse
Stay
About
Indispensable
Volunteer
Like
Always
Hired
Off
Up
Than
Forget
Get
Quit
Any
Stop
Available
Show
Right
Start
Early
Career
Good jobs look a lot like kids playing and adults working.
Mike Rowe
Good
Good Jobs
Kids
Jobs
Adult
Like
Look
Lot
Working
Playing
The one thing that TV is bad at doing is preaching. There are two extremes, you either turn the people into a punchline or turn them into hero, and both of those things suck, because most people are neither in real life.
Mike Rowe
Life
You
People
Hero
Preaching
Real Life
Extremes
Those
TV
Bad
Neither
One Thing
Both
Most
Because
Real
Doing
The One Thing
Either
Them
Turn
Suck
Thing
Things
Two
I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane.
Mike Rowe
Knowledge
Business
Path
Degree
Wish
Insane
Worthwhile
Only
Idea
None
Person
Any
Specific
Thing
Four-Year
Boredom is a choice. Like tardiness. Or interrupting.
Mike Rowe
Boredom
Like
Tardiness
Choice
Interrupting
There's a belief... in the country that we can cure unemployment by creating opportunity. The skills gap proves that opportunity along is not enough to get people employed.
Mike Rowe
People
Opportunity
Country
Enough
Along
Employed
Proves
Cure
Unemployment
Get
Creating
Skills
Gap
Belief
At the risk of being glib, I would say if you really want to make America great again, you have to make work cool again.
Mike Rowe
Work
Great
You
Say
Would
Risk
Make
America
Being
Want
Again
Really
Cool
One of the things that continually surprised people with the kind of shows I do, is that we try and find people who aren't doing jobs that are traditionally aspirational but who have nevertheless prospered and found real contentment doing it.
Mike Rowe
People
Try
Contentment
Jobs
Kind
One Of The Things
Find
Nevertheless
Real
Doing
Continually
Surprised
Who
Shows
Found
Things
If you're trying to raise a son, it gives you a chance to say things like, 'Chop your own wood; it will warm you twice.'
Mike Rowe
You
Son
Will
Own
Say
Gives
Like
Trying
Wood
Warm
Your
Chop
Twice
Things
Raise
Chance
Meaningful work is very different than drudgery.
Mike Rowe
Work
Drudgery
Very
Than
Different
Meaningful
'Bloody do-gooders' is my expression for people who are nicer than me, who are better than me.
Mike Rowe
Me
People
Better
Bloody
Than
Who
Nicer
Expression
Most of the things I do brand wise are both missionary and mercenary in their position, and that's really important to me; that's one of the first things I look at when I say, 'does it make sense to do a deal?'
Mike Rowe
Me
Wise
First
Important
Sense
Say
Both
Mercenary
Look
Missionary
Most
Make
First Things
Deal
Does
Brand
Really
Things
Position
The thing that makes 'Dirty Jobs' different is that it's one of the few shows that portrays work in a way that doesn't highlight the drudgery. Instead, it highlights the humor.
Mike Rowe
Work
Humor
Few
Way
Jobs
Dirty
Instead
Highlight
Highlights
Drudgery
Makes
Different
Shows
Thing
For me, what's the old expression, 'Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable,' that's really what religion is good at when it is done right. And the truth is, so is television.
Mike Rowe
Truth
Good
Religion
Me
Truth Is
Old
Television
Comfort
Comfortable
Afflict
Afflicted
Done
Really
Expression
Right
We don't need American Idols. We need American icons. Icons of work.
Mike Rowe
Work
Idols
American
Icons
Need
We need to tell better stories of men and women who master a trade. We have to stop telling kids to blindly follow their passion and show them the opportunities that exist. That was the big, overarching message of 'Dirty Jobs.'
Mike Rowe
Women
Better
Opportunities
Passion
Men
Men And Women
Master
Big
Blindly
Kids
Tell
Jobs
Telling
Follow
Dirty
Message
Trade
Exist
Stop
Stories
Them
Show
Who
Need
I'm fascinated by the skills gap.
Mike Rowe
Skills
Fascinated
Gap
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