Posted on 09/06/2012 1:21:19 AM PDT by grundle
During the Carter years I took a temporary job at a plant that did “grease extraction”. I had no idea what that meant. They cooked rotten chicken heads, guts, feet and feathers and turned it into a protein powder.
At age 14 I worked 7 days a week at a swimming pool cleaning and handing out baskets all for $5 a week (all the pretty girls in bikinis were a fringe benefit). I also sacked groceries, fixed flats, pumped gas, washed cars, cleared brush, mowed lawns and one summer I worked in hot attics as an electrician’s gofer....got paid $5 a day working from 7 to 6. If I got Saturday afternoon off I was docked $2.50. The only one that paid minimum wage was sacking groceries. Too many kids, and adults, today don’t want to work.
Certainly!
As you know, hard work ain't easy.
I am SO glad you posted this piece- I think Rowe is one terrific fellow. Plus- he does ads for the auto company that didn’t ask for a taxpayer bailout!
Reflecting on Mike Rowe reminds me that the America I knew...was FULL OF MEN LIKE HIM. Chock full- everywhere- they weren’t the exception- they were the rule.
As a gal..I know there are plenty more like me who think- he’s my kind of guy:)
See the link in the post after yours. Mike Rowe lives what he’s saying and was saying it last year too.
I saw that when it first aired. I was surprised they showed it.
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