Posted on 05/12/2016 9:02:45 AM PDT by fella
Every once in a while, we come across someone – either in the media, on TV or YouTube, or right next door – who captivates our attention because of their passion and love for what they’re doing.
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Mike Rowe is one of these individuals. Ever since I discovered his show Dirty Jobs, I was hooked on his messages, vibrant energy, and his overall approach to living and working better.
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My BIL, bless him, has been a lifelong plumber. His credo is “sh!t flows down hill, and don’t bite your fingernails.”
My son will be starting Heavy Equipment Mechanic training this fall. The only remaining question is whether he’ll get into a specialized program in association with the Caterpillar Corporation, or whether he’ll take the general diesel mechanic course.
Either way, in about a year and a half, he’ll have a great marketable skill, at a cost of about $2,500.
A very, very good point.
Words to truly live by.
Well, I guess I won’t be reading any more Forbes articles.
I detest web ads, and they want me to shut my ad blocker off.
Nope, not gonna do it.
Oh well, too bad so sad for both of us.
My Granddaughter graduated from college with a degree in Criminal Justice. Graduated with honers after making the Deans List every semester she was there. She works for the state corrections dept. with Juvenile offenders and is now going back to school this fall in order to get a higher paying job.
Her twin brother, a certified welder and nuclear missile maintenance technician STARTED a job after his 6 year hitch in the Air Force at more than 10 grand a year more than she makes after 4 years.
Of course, he gets his hands dirty and she does not.
“I detest web ads, and they want me to shut my ad blocker off. Nope, not gonna do it.”
Likewise. Who they **** are they to tell me to shut off my ad blocker?
I can't read articles at Forbes, because they detect AdBlock and demand that I turn it off.
Frankly, I don't care about ads, as long as they don't pop-up windows or auto-start videos or music. But, ads have become a vector for malware.
There have been several cases where malware was served by a legitimate advertising network, to legitimate websites. The originators of the malware were able to sneak it past the gatekeepers, and thousands of PCs were infected before it was detected.
Everyone wants to be a celebrity nowadays, or make a ton of money doing nothing - with their mouth as their only “skill” - Likewise parents coddle their “kiddos” today. When was the last time you heard a young guy say he wanted to be a toolmaker? Only 1% of all Americans have served in the military since the WWII generation is passing away. America! we make T-shirts, TV shows and cheap hamburgers!
That's interesting -- the three of us posted the same complaint, at about the same time.
I really wish I could tell Forbes WHY I use an ad-blocker. They might be surprised.
Of course, he gets his hands dirty and she does not.
Hopefully, he does not get his hands dirty from "nuclear" missile maintenance!
I work in the aviation industry, I wont say all of it is “dirty work”... there is at times of course. But I will say I make a very good living, my license cost me 10k.
I hate to say it, but your granddaughter's problem was her choice of degree. She should have investigated her prospects for a job BEFORE she committed to it.
The daughter of a friend was also interested in Criminal Justice. It turns out that the strong female roles in shows like CSI are encouraging a lot of girls to pursue careers in criminal justice, forensics, etc. But, the reality: it isn't really that glamorous, there aren't that many jobs (and it's now very competitive to get them), and the pay is typical for a civil servant.
She is now pursuing a different career path, which gives her a lot more options for a high-paying job. It won't be as exciting, but she is likely to become the primary bread-winner in her family unless she marries someone on a management fast-track.
I am a “white collar” college-educated worker. But it wasn’t always so.
Two comments: First, if someone denigrates someone for performing a “blue collar” job, that tells you all you need to know about them. Their opinion isn’t worth the air it took to voice the opinion.
Second, if someone denigrates someone for performing a “white collar” job, that tells you all you need to know about them. Their opinion isn’t worth the air it took to voice the opinion.
+1. Well said.
Forbes sucks anyhow
Even if you do turn off the ad blocker, their site is (and has always been) designed so terribly and the ads scripted poorly that the odds are it will crash your browser before the full article loads anyhow (especially if you use IE)
Wall Street Journal and Huffington post (not that I care) are the same, it’s a wonder how these websites stay in business
Dirty work does not DIRTY the SOUL.
In reality, DIRTY WORK is what allows this world of ours to continue working.
Our civilization exists soley on the millions whose dirty hands toil to keep things working. All the so-called ELITE only carry on because a “dirty hand” worker has kept the auto,computer, plumbing, power plant, oil refineries, farm machinery, and hospital equipment working properly. We can read at night because some guy with soiled clothing and maybe a band-aid on his hand is keeping the lights on.
That fancy University is operating ONLY because of the dedicated skill of the people who keep the buildings from falling down. Most likely, the professors would find it quite difficult to give that lecture in an open field.
Enough, I must go wash my own hands.
Yeah, I think she has caught on now.
My plumber has his motto on his truck: “It may be crap to you, but it’s my bread and butter!”
At a previous job one of the mechanics actually bought the business and is very successful as an owner.
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