Posted on 05/24/2020 4:45:04 PM PDT by Jamestown1630
I'm a long-time fan of Mike Rowe, and happened last night to see his recent 'Unsolicited Commencement Speech'. (I searched, and couldn't see if anyone else had posted this; apologies if someone already has):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnrsRHnuRKY
We used to have “shop” classes in high school, aka “industrial arts.” These were required classes for boys, while girls were steered to “home ec.”
Kerfuffles ensued, with girls hollering ‘sexism’ for being told that welding, carpentry & auto repair weren’t ‘ladylike’ endeavors; meanwhile, boys wanting to learn to cook & sew were branded ‘sissies.’
Instead of simply opening both curricula (which taught useful life skills) to both sexes, both were eventually removed from public schools altogether & replaced with LGBT & climate change indoctrination.
I have a grandson who is somewhat lost...got a 2 yr AA...but couldn’t figured out what to do...and while a gr gr Uncle left him $ for school (under our mngmt) we told him we’d only pay if he decided what to do, which he couldn’t. He Does have a supervisor type job for the Construction company where his Dad is the Operations Manager...but always talks about finding something else...I keep trying to get him to appreciate his job...and no debt. Hopefully he’ll appreciate it more after seeing Rowe’s video. Thanks again.
Thanks. Shared it. Mike Rowe has it right.
As a retired skilled tradesman (auto tech) I enjoyed Mike’s speech & appreciate what he is trying to get across to today’s young college-age folks. I would just advise those aspiring in the auto tech field to be careful about where you work; some places are just not worth the effort. The best bet is to make sure you will be afforded the advantage of paid factory training classes. These help a lot. If an employer is able to send you, but won’t then it’s time to move along. Of course, that’s only one of the pitfalls of this job; there are many others. Some of it may be beyond your ability to cope with;such as a shop changing hands or changing brands (in the case of working at a dealership).
Why can’t we draft hiim for a political post? Start a movement and I don’t believe he would spurn the nation’s call
That’s very sad. Kids learned a lot of useful stuff in those classes - I learned the basics of cooking and sewing, and those basic lessons have stood me well over a lifetime.
My husband is younger than I am, and by the time he was at that level in school, the boys in his region were doing both ‘shop’ and some more ‘domestic’ arts. He learned electrical wiring and some other ‘man’ things, but also learned to sew a little. He enjoyed both. (But he got really bored and dropped out of Scouts, when it went to more ‘artsy-craftsy’ stuff in his area, instead of the more traditional camping and related skills that he had expected.)
It wasn’t offered to girls in my time, to learn some basics of electricity, carpentry, tools and their use; but I would have appreciated that.
I think he likes what he’s doing. He obviously finds it very valuable - and it has proven so.
Sometimes it takes young people a while to find what they really want to do. As long as they have a good work ethic and are willing to stick with a decent job until they decide, they’ll do alright. Best of luck.
Ditto that.
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