Mike Rowe: How We've Set Up the Workforce for Failure - Dirty Jobs | Praise on TBN
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- Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs sits down with Matt Crouch on TBN's Praise in Colorado. Listen in as Mike Rowe breaks down what he's learned from "Dirty Jobs" and the impact that taking pride out of hard work has had on our workforce and how it inevitably crippled our younger generations.
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My father was a shop/ metals/ drafting/auto mechanics/ woodworking teacher for 20 years. One day he got a notice from the high school he had been at since his student teaching days that theybwere cutting his programs and he wouldn't have a job the next year. It gutted my father a 20 years later he still is a shell of the man he was. He changed young kids lives with those programs. He took the unmotivated, the uninterested, the unreachable and gave them all a place to take pride in something. In our community I still have men, years older than me shake my hand when they find our who my father was and say "your dad changed my life". Most of the time they are wearing auto mechanic uniforms or driving a service truck for a tire company or a construction company.. my father took kids that would have never made it through school and/or life if it wasn't for the arts Mr. Rowe is talking about and gave them useful skills that gave them good, honest careers in there own communities.
I resonate (in many ways).
I spent several decades attempting to teach and to inspire thousands and thousands of others (albeit, on my own).
Now, I'm all but forgotten. Invisible, broke, and 'useless'. 😕
I just published my first novel, and, thanks to 'algorithms', no one will ever know. But, it is what it is.
🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨
Proof that not all superheros wear capes!!!
Sad your sad was just a sheep. A blind sheep brainwashed.slave. As long as we work for anyone , we are victims. Sure he changed kids lives. Governments do not care about changing kids. Ha ha open your eyes. We are all sheep. We have to get rid of government if we ever want freedom. Sad your dad let a job run his life. He could of man up and made a life for himself. But he's a sheep. You must be a slave as well. So sad
N i still give my shop teacher to this day praise. They r highly respected in my book
@@eddiespagetti8395 I don't know you (and I consider that a unabashed privilege) but I'm gonna assume you add nothing to the world but a greasy spot on a couch, and rust bucket car that is filled with garbage and clothes that perpetually smell.
At 18 years old you can get $100,000 loan for “school”. But can’t get a $30,000 business loan. Think about that one
Amen!
Why on earth would you give an 18 year old with no experience a loan for a business? Are you just giving money to whomever? An education is tied to a person making it safe and less likely to be lost in bankruptcy... Not hard to file bankruptcy after a business failed. Very hard because you don't like your education payments...
It's just good banking. And if the 18 year old had a good business plan, you could get a loan. But with the parents helping out...
@@UDubFootballFan So giving an 18 year old $100,000 or $200,000 loan for a useless degree is good banking? I guess if you own the bank it is
Here is the Original Semitic Text. Guys, HERE is The ONLY Savior
YaH The Heavenly FATHER HIMSELF was Who they Crucified for our sins and “HERE IS THE PROOF”
From the Ancient Semitic Scroll:
"Yad He Vav He" is what Moses wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3)
Ancient Semitic Direct Translation
Yad - "Behold The Hand"
He - "Behold the Breath"
Vav - "Behold The NAIL"
Wow good point
Went to welding school for 7 months and now Im making 25 an hour. As someone who literally had nothing before, enrolling in trade school was the best decision I ever made.
Do not sleep on trade work. Dirty hands, clean money.
Amen 🙏 I’m 27 and officially have access to a life I would’ve never had before Job Corp. I’ve only met a handful of millionaires but they where all self made using trades (truck driving, construction, mechanics)
Where the hell are you making 25? I'm only doing 19 and I'm way underqualified for what I do
One of the truest comments “dirty hands, clean money”.
I make 20 bucks driving a forklift... I want to do more tho
@@maxscott3349 Advice as a welder myself stay for the skill a year or 2 and leave find another job that pays more or teaches you more. Started low and now I make more you got to keep looking and willing to move as well.
I had to explain this to my son. We tend to identify with our jobs. But that's not who we are.
You're a human being, not a human doing.
You are who you are regardless of what you're doing at the time.
I agree. But I wouldn't be the person I am without the job I have.
That'd be nice if that was true, but unfortunately when you meet someone or have any conversation, within the first couple of minutes its always "what do you do?" Or "how's work going?" And they will basically like you or not like you based on your answer
@@zad0k91 I rarely talk about work.
Its just a means to an end for most of us.
If someone asks me "what do you do for a living" within moments of meeting me.
I know then, they are not someone I'm interested in having a conversation with.
They basically just said "so the weather's crazy huh?"
@@zad0k91 I agree. I normally answer with,“what do I do? Well, that depends on the situation, doesn’t it?” Needless to say I don’t have a lot of friends.
Another issue: At least when I was in high school, shop classes were viewed as "second class," where the non-intellectuals went. Certainly looked down upon. What a shame.
Yes but in the end we came out ahead.
I went through a work co-op program in High School in the 90s and worked for a construction company half a day. That was the best education I have ever received. I feel bad for the kids now. They do not have that opportunity.
@@alelectric2767
Lol! I can tell by your name you did quite well for yourself!
I did the "college" route and luckily did okay. No insane student debts in those days. But these days I gravitate towards trades for fun: electrical, plumbing, welding. I'm no pro but good enough to get jobs around the house done safely and saving money.
@@ryanwolf4101 Same here just a different trade.
@@ianmackenzie686 I didn’t have the grades or desire for college . But I did ok considering teachers didn’t think I would amount to much. 👍
I worked as a butcher for 40 years. Lugging beef, cold room, no windows. Had fun everyday. Made friends.Even learned to speak Spanish.
Raised three kids and had good insurance.... life is what you make it.
I've been doing it for about 24 years. They're trying to phase it out by outsourcing and bringing in pre cut meat.
Here is the Original Semitic Text. Guys, HERE is The ONLY Savior
YaH The Heavenly FATHER HIMSELF was Who they Crucified for our sins and “HERE IS THE PROOF”
From the Ancient Semitic Scroll:
"Yad He Vav He" is what Moses wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3)
Ancient Semitic Direct Translation
Yad - "Behold The Hand"
He - "Behold the Breath"
Vav - "Behold The NAIL"
Butcher is yet another career that isn't available to young kids. People are gonna come in here and talk about how they're too lazy, blah blah blah. If that's true then please tell me how many local butchers you have within 10 miles on Google.
The older generations like to wax poetically about how they did it growing up while they also completely deny the reality kids are growing up in nowadays. Many of the jobs our parents did are gone. You can't go earn a decent living and retire from your local hardware store, or grocery store, or butchers shop because mega companies and Amazon have moved in and killed all of those jobs that once paid livable wages.
Add on top of that the growing cost of housing, cars, education(vocational or degree) and we're setting up young people to be debt slaves with no hope at the American dream while a bunch of retired old men with boats talk down to them about how easy it is.
Mike Rowe is an actor who graduated with a theater degree who now goes around telling people how they just need to get a manual labor job and stop going to college, because chasing your dreams only works for people like him who've found a grift to ride and the rest of us should get back in the pit and earn our pay. Reality TV Life must be real easy, but the rest of us are out here in the real world struggling and watching our hardworking friends and family struggle while being told we're doing it wrong by a guy who makes his money making our lifestyles into vicarious theater.
@@charlesbronson2806 yup. Same with a lot of the careers from what I like to call the "Richard Scarry" jobs, aka the former basic building blocks in every community (hardware store worker, baker, butcher, bus driver, plumber, etc). Many of these good jobs have been so outsourced and driven out by large companies who now pay minimum wage for the same work that communities have lost a ton of individual earning potential in exchange for quick, cheap, easy goods and services.
America is selling it's soul to Walmart and Amazon and the younger generation is going to pay a steep price for it.
You were lucky to have insurance. Most don't
Im a CNC Machinist and 30 years old and enjoy my job everyday. No college debt and can say i have a good life. People should learn to live off what they have or make and not what they want or others have. Find happiness in what is around you. Some of the saddest poorest people are the richest financially.
I agree I have a few neighbors the world wouldn't miss lol
Also a CNC machinist, 32, no college debt, homeowner, and I have less than 15 yrs until I'm debt free. The trades may be hard work, but it can pay off if you can live within your means.
Its such a good trade to get into. I took 2 semesters on manufacturing and got a real good job now. They cant find enough good people for machining. And the more machining in our country, the more jobs there are related to that. Safety, environment, hr, repair, logistics.
I wonder if the engineers who worked on creating the cnc tech and machines share your views.
Including people in trades though too haha
"Who you are is more valuable than what you do" -- good words.
I have so much respect for Mike Rowe. He speaks so much common sense.
Today “common sense” is not common… sad to say.
@@icestationzebra8636 You proved it with your comment
@@icestationzebra8636 common sense is just another way of saying feelings....he bases his ideas on feelings
Mike Rowe is a man who understands exactly what we've lost in this country, our government and taxation has ruined ,family, community, and helping your fellow man, so much lost!
@@minerjim1531 Solution????? You sound just like Mike and all conservatives...You are so good at complaining but never offer up ideas or solutions. Got a Solution????? Where's your "Common sense" solutions?
Education turned into a business rather than the good for all Involved.
Those who can - Do
Those who cant - Teach
Those who can't teach - Teach Teachers
Those who can't teach teachers - Become politicians..
Those Who Can't Become Politicians , Become Financial Experts And Bribery Becomes The Standard
Anymore stupid questions why things are so screwed up?
Not a business, a government monopoly. At least businesses try to make money. Schools only care about spending money, and when they've spent it all, they ask for more. Results are irrelevant.
@@SegoMan
Those Who Can't Become Politicians , Become Financial Experts And Bribery Becomes The Standard .
@@SegoMan School of rock 🤣
@@boboften9952 Thanks for the add on!
The whole of American society has centered on commerce. Private schools, loans, and debt systems are very effective at funneling wealth to share holders and trapping young people into a cycle of endless toil in service of debt.
Those 100k "loans" aren't for the students, that's guaranteed income for the business of education.
Correct, and tragic.
and criminal.
Go live in Romania then, see if your quality of life improves.
Or, we could use the mechanisms of Democracy to better the situation.
No state is perfect, and pretending there are no problems won't solve them. Nor will exiling or silencing those who are willing to progress the project of Democracy in America.
Exactly!
I graduated high school thinking I'd go into teaching because that was what I was pushed to do. While in college I had a great professor that found something that he saw I enjoyed doing and encouraged me to check out a path I never thought about. Now I'm fixing band instruments in a music store and absolutely love what I do
@Yummy Spaghetti Noodles I've been doing it for 8 yrs now and people from my hometown still don't understand what I do. But I've paid off 7yrs worth of student debt and have a car paid off within the year.
Do you have experience repairing 200 year old antique Zithers?
I got my degree in psychology only to become a piano technician.
Growing up on a farm was a God send for learning excellent life skills !
Definitely. I grew up on a farm as well, I was using power tools young. My daughter is 13 she has been operating our skidsteer for 2 years
Grew up on the farm, farmed for 49 years, started a welding and repair shop on the farm in 1985 having done it since I got out of high school in 1969. Dad taught me to overhaul tractor motors and I went on to drag race for 20+ years, built my own motors, transmissions, auto and manual, and set up differentials and narrowed rear ends. All came from the basic things Dad taught me from welding to mechanical and learned from many, many mistakes and still welding, fabricating and repairing at 70.
@@paulvolk5446 I left our farm at 17 and was a Power Plants mechanic on the AV-8B in the Marine Corps for 6 years. Did steel and timber construction/framing in Australia. Worked on cars for a little while, built power lines for a few years and then back in to aviation maintenance since 1997.
I have never had a problem getting good work.
@@freeholdequine2733 Buying a 60 - 100+ acer farm is my goal over the next couple of years.
I’m jealous
I joined the US Army as a truck driver. After serving my eight year term I went to my university and doubled major and double minored.
Guess what I have been doing for the last twenty years, being one of the most safest truck drivers out there. Yeah, I haven't earned one penny from what I learned in the university, but I have made thousands of dollars from what I learned in the US Army.
Is this M.R.?
College is a scam
Wow that's incredibly scary
*Most safe. Most safest is grammatically wrong.
Yep, similar for me. I worked maintenance and welding jobs while getting three degrees including a Masters in criminal justice and paying off my student loans working in maintenance at a prison lol. Even though I have the degrees no one wants to hire me for something related to them. I can get hired fixing things and welding because of my experience.
I am a psychologist. I went to all public colleges / university. I got a job in academia. Been working there for about 12yrs now. I still owe more $ in student loans than I make in two years salary. We have two incomes in this house. My family could never survive on my income alone. I've always loved Mike Rowe, and I share videos of him with my students all the time. I'll be showing them this one as well
I went to college and earned a bachelor’s degree. Did student teaching and hated it. I went to work at the United States Postal Service in 2005. Nearly 19 years later, I don’t regret going into public service. I find great joy and happiness in serving others as a rural mail carrier. I also make a decent wage which keeps me from doing a halfway job while I’m at work.
He makes good points, but misses the main point. Employers don't want craftsmen, they want replaceable cogs in an industrial machine. Artisans take pride in what they do,that leads them to make unreasonable demands,such as raises, benefits and better working conditions.
Employers need to keep employees feeling insecure and vulnerable. This applies to more than just industrial labor. It applies to corporate lawyers, computer coders and management as well. We have all heard a boss say "nobody is irreplaceable." That means that nothing you do matters as well. Young people spend stupid amounts of money on education hoping that they can break out of that trap. Some succeed, most don't.
If you have the skills and the discipline to learn skills you have more opportunity to work independently by starting your own business
I don’t think Mike misses that point at all. The whole mindset of production>quality, and title>merit, and consumerism>skill was addressed. You’re still correct on your points, but I think Mike’s bigger picture absolutely speaks to your points as well: that we have been forced into an economy-and-consumer based society from our independence-and-skill based society.
You hit the nail right on the head
Employers want people that want to work. My company is not in a position to give these sign on bonuses, health care and whatever to get someone to work. Your arguement is not thought-out and irrelevant. People today want a check and NOT work for it.
I agree that Mike misses some of the main points on his push for trades.
I find it interesting how Mike talks about trades like we should all just be hardworking Americans who are content with low paying jobs. There's more to it than his oversimplifications.
Ironically:
Mike's net worth is somewhere around 30 million.
Mike went to college for Communication Studies.
Mike is literally paid to talk!
Mike thinks Dirty Jobs made him an apprentice...he got a taste of what sucks about those jobs without having to do those jobs day after day.
Mike argues against wage increases, yet the cost of living, and especially housing, has gone up.
There may be a need for people to go into trades, but these jobs aren't the same as they were for our parents and grandparents. Also, just because there are some more traditional tradesmen working for themselves and making quality items for more money doesn't mean everyone can just go do it.
We buy cheap from China. We don't pay for quality made in the US stuff. Many of the jobs are outsourced and the ones here, while better than working in a factory in China perhaps, still aren't always good jobs.
I find it disturbing that Mike downplays our move toward safety in the US. People die because of unsafe practices. That's part of the reason we have unions and L&I. Now we offload to China and don't even seem to care about their unsafe work environments.
I've done flooring. I've worked factory jobs. I've worked in manufacturing. I've had a list of jobs like Mike's DIrty Jobs...but I sure didn't get paid like he did. Minimum wage with little increase in pay for sticking around. No appreciation for thinking or improving anything. Expected to deal with safety issues as if they don't exist or be labeled a whistle blower.
Just a cog...like we all want to go back to that for less pay?
The jobs my Dad and Grandpa had are gone. Those same companies now want a degree for the same jobs, but don't provide the same pension or benefits. That's part of the reason people are going to college. They hope to get a better job, which doesn't always work out.
Mike is right about college being a rip off when manufacturers require degrees but don't pay well enough. Unfortunately, he doesn't offer any solution to this problem.
There are trade schools. Tech Colleges provide much of what the vocational schools did and they are cheaper than Universities. People don't have to put themselves into major debt to do these jobs. You can be an auto mechanic, nurse, welder, surveyor, inspector, electrician, engineer, etc.
Why are students going to universities? Chasing the American Dream that our previous generations achieved through trades and manufacturing?
We live like Kings...but people chase more and more. Some people also want to do more than just manufacture goods or repair toilet leaks however...
Sorry for the long rant...but Mike needs to offer some real solutions rather than spouting the same "College isn't working" and "Youth need to be happy with the jobs they can get" mantras. There are reasons being a plumber or electrician does pay decent. That doesn't mean we all need to give up our desire to achieve something different.
Money doesn't equal happiness. Having a roof over your head, food, water...that's all we really need. However, it's sure nice having some extra money like Mike Rowe. For many working for minimum wage, even their own roof over their head seems out of reach. Care to give them a better job?
When I was 7, my dad showed me how to take apart the bike, clean out the old axle grease, and repack it, along with other bike maintenance tasks. By the time I was 10 I was using the jig saw, and by 15 the table saw. And yes, I had industrial arts classes in Jr. High. In the 1960's and 70's, when I was growing up, industry was still king in the USA. Many parents taught their kids skills, along with the schools. I passed it on as well. My son and grandson do woodworking. It is not only the schools, is the parents too.
You got that right. 9 times out of 10 its parents fault.
Industry may no longer be king, but the trades, specifically union, or self owned positions hold a ton of value if as you said, the parents lay the groundwork. I removed my brothers (freshly broken) training wheels at 7, all alone thanks to my father's prior teaching. Ever since then I've been taking things apart just to learn.
Cool, no one ever showed me how to do anything growing up. My mom was a drug addict, dad an alcoholic. I been underpaid at almost every job I ever been at. I learned everything by myself and through men who hated me. So what now?
@@mattaomartinez.9817 Fortunately we have the internet as a resource for learning hands on skills as a place to get started. Buy some leather, thread, needle, and awl and make yourself a new wallet with the guidance of a video. Get a wrench and a file and sharpen your lawn mower blade. Buy a 3D model kit, ostensibly made for younger people, and put it together to learn how they work. Volunteer with a tradesman for a few hours and ask them to teach you a basics about their work. Most men I've ever worked with (and/or trained) learned much more by doing the task, not just being shown or told. So get your hands dirty. Start somewhere, anywhere, and you'll quickly discover how satisfying life can be when you produce :) It's never too late.
100% agree! I've met hundreds of "stupid" people who can build houses, grow food, and fix/maintain machinery. I Know plenty of "intelligent" people who can't understand any of the processes which they rely on for survival, but have much knowledge in a niche area of life which doesn't help them or their fellow citizens. Why these "intelligent" people are more valued by society through higher pay is beyond my understanding. Knowledge isn't something that can be gained through a degree, knowledge is a lifelong process. It sucks being more knowledgeable and talented than the people you work for while making a fraction of what they do for a higher productive output. This classist, not meritocratic attitude is ruining the quality of life for the average citizen
We have called CEO's of pharmaceutical, biotech and banking companies to testify in congress to explain their exorbitant price gouging and increases. It is time for the presidents of universities to be summarily interrogated by congress to explain the same.
You should start with politicians choosing to cut funding to universities. That’s why they have to raise tuition.
@@HockeyTownHooligan5 Yes, but university executives, presidents and coaches still make exorbitant salaries on the backs of indebting teenagers and young adults for decades to come. There's a reason why full-time academic staff are declining while the salaries of the presidents and executives continue to go up. It should also be noted that when they raise tuition the majority of those funds go toward salary expenses for university employees, including themselves. They fully know what they're doing, and they're fully complicit in this problem as well.
"interrogated" Tell me you are a fascist without telling me you are a fascist
We’ve convinced a generation of people that fulfillment comes through our work, making the assumption that our job is what gives us our value. This is a conversation happening on both the left and right, I truly think this is one of the most important battles in the next decade we’ll see go down. A complete societal shift
You'd be right were it not for the fact that women go after men they deem as high value (as in the men who have those high status jobs).
@@yearight1205 Said societal shift will have to include that if it will be successful. Money and status aren’t the end all be all of looking for a partner, and society as a whole should be valuing traits rather than status.
@@yearight1205 yes 100% of women exclusively look for partners with a big job, this is a scientific fact proven by many science tests.
Biblical truths and Jesus Christ are needed! Everyone saying stuff thats been in the Bible all along
Much fulfillment does come from my work. I think this is the way it should be.
“Dirty Jobs” was such a great show, Mike Rowe really had a great gig going showing the world the bowels of the work force.
Where IS the workforce these days though? I manage a hydraulic and industrial hose distribution business in the Boston area and there are countless industries (including ours, in the Fluid Power industry) who CANNOT under any circumstance find workers/employees/technicians to fill their/our vacant roles. What happened to the America that we always knew? The America where people actually took pride in the fact that they go out everyday and make a direct impact to our society as a whole by the things they do and the tasks they undertake during the course of a workday? Just...WHAT HAPPENED? I am saddened that this is the reality we all know now. This isn't the proper path that we are on currently, and it isn't the way things are supposed to be.
# Work Ethic # Pride in your work # Blue Collar Pride
@@joeditullio7981 it’s sad really. The stats were 1 in 7 males are unemployed with no interest except internet, gaming or streaming which is begging for money. 70+% of single men and women live at home with a parent still.
Parents have raised a generation of children where they didn’t make their children cut grass, do chores and such. They let them stay in the house doing nothing but play video games and watch YT and other things laying around.
The internet, cel phones and tablets have literally spoiled millennials and GenZ kids.
They’re raised and do nothing like we did growing up. Our generation wanted to be outside moving around doing things. This generation sits on their butts and have energy which they confuse as anxiety so they get prescription meds to slow them down. 70% of the population are on some type of anti-depression or anxiety medications.
That’s a root cause for much of it. These kids today don’t want to work or get their hands dirty. It’s shameful and it will eventually be our downfall in the United States.
Oh and be fully remote and spend 100% of my free time with my family
@@joeditullio7981 Companies aren't willing to train someone with no experience and 20 to 40nyear olds aren't willing to take on 10k (and usually more) to get trained.
I was blown away when I went to apply for loans for school…and how much I could borrow…and yet I couldn’t borrow near anything when it came to me buying a house…I’m waiting for the student loan debt to implode
Yup. I remember the first time I went to buy a computer they ran a credit check on me. I got declined cause I had "no credit". Not bad credit. No credit. How do you get credit without getting credit. Someone has to take a chance on you. Usually a gas station credit card. But yet you walk into a college and you can get a loan for your first semester worth at least several computers. It's almost like the system is designed to make people into wage slaves.
I remember a kid in school took out the max in loans while his parents were funding his education...he bought like a 36k card on the loan lmao. He graduated and has 100k in debt with a car now worth 20k and a worn out liver (80k in partying travel)
Because you can lose a home and business loans, but there is no way out of student loans.
I think every high school and then college student should be required to take a financial education class. I saw so many people taking out student loans for things like spring break etc. I would hate to be those people now trying to pay it back. And nowadays kids want to live high on the hog. No more living in a dump eating top Ramen while they go to school.
It has always been as simple as “United we stand, divided we fall”…
Now I need to hear that song.
And if our backs should ever be against the wall
We'll be together, together, you and I
Amen!
Cringe
Most the racist I know say this as well , totally lost on most
The Globalist left (democrats & RINOs) are working hard on dividing the USA.
When I was growing up your work history and ethics and your word.. was all you needed to succeed in life.... sadly that is no more
I got my PhD in (applied) Physics with 16 yrs in college.
I REALLY enjoyed "shop" so much I got those instructors to allow me to over assign my course load so I could meet my requirements for college AND still take all the shop courses that I wanted!!! That's why I'm so good as a PhD scientist, very hands-on and well-rounded. However, society has stolen my real skill/merit as a PhD Physicist replaced by "equity".
I'm now considering doing something else because I'm tired of saving lives for no recognition. I have over 25 patents in life saving hospital equipment and don't get a dime!!
“They do what needs to be done
Then they learn to be good at it
Then they learn to love it.”
He could be talking about marriage not just vocation.
Yes indeed.
That's called life.
...wow that doesn't sound like marriage at all. It is your fault that you get tied up in something you don't like.
@@midnull6009 No no my friend, I think you may have misunderstood!
You can love a person all you want, and you should, if you're marrying them. But NO marriage is easy all the time. Staying together, happily, loving and honoring one another to mutual benefit, always requires hard work and sacrifice.
It might be as simple as divvying up housework or as hard as giving up large parts of your lifestyle. But you will have to do something hard at first, then learn to do it well, as a labor of love, if you wish to be happy in marriage.
At least that's my take, from watching those whose marriages have worked out vs. those that haven't. FWIW.
@@SoybeanAK uh...wow ok, no. I disagree. It's called compromise. And all those "hard" decisions should have been made well before you got married. If 2 peoples goals don't match....there is a low chance the marriage will be a happy one.
I think it’s as simple as the tradesmen and women are looked down on. As my friend a Union carpenter stated they all want you to build it for them but they don’t want you to live it their neighborhood. Your a working class person beneath their scholarly ways.
If high tech jobs paid less ..... the middle class would be stronger .... not everyone wants to work with computers !
@@freedomstar3814 Unfortunately tech jobs are some of the few jobs left in America that pays decent without breaking your back all day in the sun.
My kind of people !
"Scholarly ways" is something we need more of in this country not less. The fact that you equate reading comprehension with elitism is part of the country's problem. Ignorance reigns.
I am a contractor and my customers don't look down on me.
It’s really unfortunate that when you meet anyone new the very first question you get after “What’s your name ?” is “What do you do?”. Wouldn’t it be nice if that question was replaced by, “What things bring you joy?”. I keep coming back to this clip to watch it again and again. Mike hit the nail on the head, and he eloquently summed up both the problem and the solution. After 29 years as a professional working in the role I took courtesy of that college loan (and spent almost three decades thinking defined who I was as a person), the sudden end of that work felt like I’d lost my whole identity. The last two years spent just finding things that need to get done, learning how to do them and completing them successfully has opened my eyes. There’s nothing more rewarding than finding you CAN do those things you never would’ve thought possible. It’s never too late to redefine who you are.
“Where’s everybody goin? I’ll go the other way.” Pretty much my mantra after I graduated high school in 1995. Took a few years to get off the ground, but I’m a Water Plant Operator that does better than just about all of my college graduate friends. Mike Rowe knows what he’s talking about.
A lot of these jobs now require a college degree. I'm a water plant operator too.
@@leevought5965 You can still be a lineman without a degree if you can pass the entrance test. And I never needed a degree for this position and we’ve been hiring guys with no degree at all for this. You just have to work your way in. It’s not like we’re engineers.
Daughter just graduated college as a teacher. But when we went to the financial aid seminar we were pretty much told that if you didnt go to college you couldnt support a family. Im 3rd generation trades. Didnt do it till mid 30's. Do I love it. Some days are better than others. But I have a set of skills that are in demand. And I do great financially.
I got my class A and began truck driving less than 2 years ago. Now my family and I are getting ready to purchase a house. In fact, I have 3 friends who are also truck drivers who just purchased homes. Many trades out there that cost almost nothing to learn. College is a scam. Sad but true.
@@jacobjohnson6766 most likely of the trades but also very naive of you to say with such confidence. It may change but It's not going anywhere, people will always be needed especially when the workforce is always in demand. Funny you would even take the time to say such a thing, it was so out of nowhere lol
Whats funny is trades have gone up in value as a job, because less people want to do it. I teach, tell my students all the time that trade jobs are good jobs.
@@dev_vg he is probably repeating what media has been saying. My dad just transitioned to truck driving after 31 years at a office job. It sureis in demand right now lol.
@@matthewalvarez6884 that's what I figured. Repeating common phrases does not make you look smart kids
It’s tough. I had no direction from my father other than to get out of the house when I turned 18. I did take shop class in part because I failed algebra classes twice. I enjoyed the heck out of mechanical drafting and architectural drafting, and from that after leaving home, the graphics arts for a few years, and then computerized graphics and typsetting. From there I found computers were something I loved. I’ve been screwing around with computers for 40 years and I still love it. I see lots of people who burn out from being in the IT industry. I think many if most joined because it was good money and not because they loved it. I was over at one of my customers home Friday night helping with a home computer issue and he was asking, why am I still helping him when I’m 64? It’s because it’s what I love to do.
Plenty of people burn out of the IT industry not because they didn't love computers from the start... It's that there are far more sociopaths in IT than any other industry. When you work for a sociopath... No matter how much you love computers you will burn out with a quickness.
wow - exactly my story
Here is the Original Semitic Text. Guys, HERE is The ONLY Savior
YaH The Heavenly FATHER HIMSELF was Who they Crucified for our sins and “HERE IS THE PROOF”
From the Ancient Semitic Scroll:
"Yad He Vav He" is what Moses wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3)
Ancient Semitic Direct Translation
Yad - "Behold The Hand"
He - "Behold the Breath"
Vav - "Behold The NAIL"
Sounds like your dad did a good job.
Todays parents are far too soft and "supportive". Childhood is not an 18 year disney fantasy. It's a course on how to learn to take care of yourself.
You can either play as a kid and work as an adult, or work as a kid and play as an adult.
You're an adult a lot longer than a kid
I feel the same, I've been a bottle maker for about 7 years now and I absolutely love my job
Everytime I hear Mike Rowes voice I grow as a man and a individual.
He taught me to work hard.
Years later I'm in tears he tells me love myself.
Love not what you do but who you are. Wish I had these words with me years ago.
Mike is a national treasure; he has his heart in the right place and his head straight.
23 years in the trades, I come home dirty and tired but proud of what I’ve done all day, the people I’ve helped.
Only to realize that the teenager filming themselves watching funny TikToks made 3x as much money as you.
@@thedarkemissary yeah that’s fine. I never had money so I’m not missing it and it’s not why I live my life.
@@tallguy0887 That's a great mindset to have, thanks for whatever it is you do.
Its because people are so insecure. They cant be known as a mechanic, janitor, plumber, etc. Etc. Everyone is a "tech". Be proud of what you do.
Its true, but most dads aren't willing to accept that when their daughter's fiance is a proud bus driver or janitor. Also a man's dating options drop as well. The issue is far more deeply embedded than the guys on the show discuss. It goes so much beyond arts in school and kids going to college. It was a problem for Baby Boomers as it is for Gen Z.
15 yrs of nothing but video games will do that
It's so funny. What are secretaries now, "Office Managers"?
@@mike-uh8rk some of those gamers are millionaire s
Most are 30 living in mommy's basement
Mike Rowe for President! Seriously, we need a guy like this for America!
Living your life to become a politician are the wrong people for governance.
Living your life and being begged to govern? Those are the ones who are true leaders.
Remember the early days in America folks. They didn't want to lead, but they had to, just like any other work we have.
The idea of being happy with yourself by simply being a good person is such a bizarre concept for so so many. It took me years to accept this idea and it's still a daily struggle that I have to remind myself routinely.
@BeatniKkers 😆 keep living in that delusion.
@BeatniKkers I hate replying to people on TH-cam, but oh boy. What a fresh steaming pile of dookie. I hate to break it to you but some of us would rather be a good person because we CARE, not because we're promised salvation.
@@jaron38Well considering how many of modern western moral standards were set by Christianity and the Ten Commandments, he ain’t entirely wrong.
This is why I have liked Mike Rowe for 20 years, Smart man.
In the '70s at the end of the year, I was given the highest award for woodshop class. I had made a pendulum clock. The art teacher came up to me and said, "If I knew that is what you had done... I would have given you the Top Art Award as well. That is an exquisite piece of Art."
what career path did u take?
Did u stick w woodworking?
@@thatwhatisaid Unemployment line. 😂
@@thatwhatisaid Unfortunately, there aren't many jobs you can get that involve woodworking. I actually wrote a piece about this the other day, "Tending your garden", to highlight how important it is for folks to tend to their local craftsmen just like they would a garden. Those small shops all got shut down by the big box stores because the customers wanted to save a dollar or two. My town used to have dozens of craftsmen of all types, but now there's only one and he's barely holding on. Why? Because people would happily buy crap made in india than something made locally that costs $100 more and will last a lifetime. They like the short-term gains and can ignore the long-term problems it creates. They didn't tend their gardens, then complain when there are no small businesses around, and nowhere for kids to put their shop-class training to use.
Here is the Original Semitic Text. HERE is The ONLY Savior
YaH The Heavenly FATHER HIMSELF was Who they Crucified for our sins and “HERE IS THE PROOF”
From the Ancient Semitic Scroll:
"Yad He Vav He" is what Moses wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3)
Ancient Semitic Direct Translation
Yad - "Behold The Hand"
He - "Behold the Breath"
Vav - "Behold The NAIL"
@@threeriversforge1997 If you can get custom cabinets for $100 more than big box store cabinets you are lucky. I try to buy local or small business but most of the time it's not feasable.
I went to a family owned gun store 5 or 6 years ago. I was looking at a couple of items and they were about $40ish dollars per item more than they were at Academy.
I tell the guy how much they are at academy. He looks at me and said, "come on help the small guy out", with a smirk.
So i tell the guy i'll buy both of these if you sell me the third at one at cost.
He looked at me and said he could'nt do that. So i went to academy and actually bought three items not much more than what he wanted for the two.
Long story short he turned down around $1,400.00 over maybe $50 bucks.
Never been back to that store.
My ancestors were slaves, instead of teaching me to be a victim, my parents me to get out the door and make my life what I want in to be.
Mike Rowe for President!
All of our ancestors were slaves at some point
In Australia they were called convicts and were al white and treated a lot worse than a slave that was paid for, good on you for getting on with life!
Mike Rowe is a real American, and knows the bones of America are built out of hard work.
Mike Rowe is the best, he has always been a nice guy......mostly.
I never went to college. I got married at 18 and started working with my husband for nearly 17 years. What did I get out of it? A paid off house. Now I'm looking to retire in about 5 years at the age of 45.
And what do you 2 do?
How can you work for 17 years and have enough to keep you in retirement for 50 years? Oh yes, husband.
Lotsa jealousy in the comments....😂
@@75shadystorm We were both Produce Managers. I got into working with him as a manager when I was about 19 or 20 as I married at 18. We have no kids, so we both focus on caring for our family. That's how I'm able to aim for an early retirement program.
@@christins.1481 You must have saved at least 50% of your combined income every year in order to pay off your home that fast. I'm guessing your home didn't cost a fortune either.
In my high-school it was called industrial arts.
Think that means your probably old.
MIKE RUN FOR PRESIDENT.
I WOULD LISTEN TO HIM FOR 8 YEARS
As a custodian for 17 years and doing a good job, I’m often told “ oh , you clean “, rude …. Rude….. RUDE !
I went to college for two years, dropped out and I've been in Industrial Maintenance, and currently Marine Construction ever since. No amount of pay can give as much fulfillment as the smiles from operators that finally have a machine with no problems, the smile on a homeowner's face when their vision is alive, the smiles and pointing when little kids see us removing rust and re-coating steel structures making them like new. Hi, I'm James Dueñas, and this is my job.
This is exactly how it was when I graduated from high school in 1996! I don't work in the field I went to college for. I spent 3 years chasing that field and never went anywhere with it. Very frustrating in many ways.
I'm the same age. At that time they were telling you do this with computers do that with computers and by the time you had started to focus on this and that it all was obsolete. It was definitely a tough time to start college.
Same. Class of 96 here, too. I went to a university and got my 4year degree in management. Did it for 7 years and was stressed out making less than guys in the trades. Wish I had went to be an electrician or industrial maintenance.
I graduated in '96 myself. I wanted to go to music school, but didn't realize you still had to take all the usual 101 classes from college. I barely passed high school. I knew I would never make it through college. So I decided to apprentice under my father who had a successful plumbing biz. I've never regret it and now I have the reputation of the best in my area. The trade industry has been good to me and I have a few colleagues who would agree. I would tell other kids at school my dad was a plumber and they would turn up their noses. Now I know that my dad made 3 times what their parents did. None of those kids laugh at me now, lol. Best of luck my friend.
I also Graduated in ‘96. The trades were looked down as 4 year degree is what everyone should have. Well I tried various paths 1. International Business Law I lost interest. 2. Electric Engineer Finally figured out I was dyslexic. I did have the design for what became Redbox just did not Patent it and an investor took it. I bounced around after that.
Mike Rowe 2024 . . . He may not like it, but that is what we need.
I went to college first to be a biologist, changed to psychology because it seemed more fitting for where I lived. I did this while I worked primarily in maintenance…then I moved into a clerk position because it paid more. I regret going to college, I’m in debt, I’ll be in debt until I’m in my 60’s, for a degree I don’t use, for knowledge that doesn’t mean anything to me. It didn’t get me a better job. It didn’t make me happy. The job I took as a clerk… I had to quit because I was so unhappy, and stressed. I was happiest cutting grass, and fixing things. So now I’m a stay at home mom who homeschools with a degree of debt. I was led to believe you need a college degree for a good paying job. Once you get your degree, doors will open. I was led be lies into a world of regret and loans I can barely pay. Art made me happy, I should have followed it, but was told over and over and over that artist don’t get paid a lot…was asked the question “you don’t want to be a starving artist?”
Our happiness depends on how much of our time spent is enjoyed. Get paid to do what you love so both your work time is enjoyable and your downtime is well funded to do whatever else you enjoy. In this I've found an unshakeable amount of happiness.
There is joy in hard work and sweat
@@Brian-dh9lp ...my two cents: joy is from, and of, the Lord, happiness is contentment from experiences and environments based in pleasure.
I get paid very well to do a job I dont love, but I love my kids so I just do it.
@@Brian-dh9lp Joy is great pleasure, often fleeting, mostly situational. Happiness is a blend of pleasure, contentment and peace, it's more big picture and reflects how you view your place in life.
@@briandaniels7493 well said.
The industrial revolution was the beginning of the war on the tradesmen. The race for profit by cutting costs at the personal level began with the shift to the corporate model. We turned everything into a corporate model including education instead of letting people enjoy what they do. Everything needs to be measured in terms of numbers that show growth and a pre-determined goal line set by someone else, a line that keeps moving to minimize competition and maintain the social pyramid intact. That removed the love, emotion, and pride from the work for results.
Well spoken friend.
We also convinced 2 generations of young women that the goal in life should be a job and career, with no mention of family or domestic life and its role of joy and fulfillment, let alone the stability is provides to society.
The system isn't broken, it's working exactly as it was meant to. It's just we're not the ones meant to ever seen any benefit from it.
Yes 100%
Say this prayer today: Dear Lord Jesus, I pray that, according to the riches of his glory, he may grant that you may be strengthened in your inner being with power through his Spirit, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in love. In Jesus Name. Amen
As an Ag Teacher, I love to see someone spreading the word. I am tired of seeing new teachers talk about anxiety, stress, and fulfilling experiences.
The clearest reveal of how truthful your perspective on work is, comes to light in retirement. The two lies we were told is "You are what you do" and "Your worth as a person is based on your productivity" (This applies to your worth as a "Worker" but not your Personhood)
All your responsibility is in retirement is just enjoy being you. That's it period!!!
MIKE ROWE for president!!!!!!!!!!!!
The most profound statement was made in the last 15 seconds of this clip. Higher education has got to change.
It won’t unless parents quit blindly sending their kids to these schools. They need to hurt in the wallet. It’s a business, they could honestly care less if the students succeed
@@carramrod8232 what matters to parents from expierience is:
1.What the employee might think of you by having a higher education diploma alone those giving you better access to the job market.
2. Whether you have the actual knowledge on the subject, that's irrelevant, the diploma alone is what parents care about.
Companies need to change. They need to stop demanding a 4 year degree when they generally teach you the job while working there. So many companies just use the 4 year degree to weed out candidates. Most hiring goes through computers that look for key words on resumes or need a yes checked in the degree box. Hiring has gotten lazy because they don't want to actually interview and learn about how the job seekers function.
Here is the Original Semitic Text. Guys, HERE is Our ONLY Savior
YaH The Heavenly FATHER HIMSELF was Who they Crucified for our sins and “HERE IS THE PROOF”
From the Ancient Semitic Scroll:
"Yad He Vav He" is what Moses wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3)
Ancient Semitic Direct Translation
Yad - "Behold The Hand"
He - "Behold the Breath"
Vav - "Behold The NAIL"
@@meanpaco yep, thats why networking is a must. You want a good job? Mingle at a party with a business owner and make sure he had a few drinks. If you know your shit you will impress and opportunities will show up. Skip the college BS, work hard and network instead.
Growing up, money was tight, so we had no choice but to work on and fix things ourselves. We gained simple, mechanical skills in using common hand tools by building our own bikes from parts we'd garbage pick or trade with the other kids in the neighborhood. It was all by the seat of our pants. Basic carpentry was learned by scouring the town dump for scrap wood or old crates and turning it into a crude but functional go-carts. We would straighten out old bent nails and reuse them. By the time we were driving, (used cars, of course) we did our own tune-ups, oil changes and brake jobs. It was common for neighbors to re-shingle their roofs themselves as we did growing up. Now that I can afford to hire a trade to do just about anything I want done, I still do most work myself around the house and yard out of habit.
This was me as a kid.
Bikes >lawnmowers >cars >automotive technician
That's great. I'm 31 and I still straighten used nails for projects, used reclaimed lumber and build everything I can myself. I will not buy any furniture for in the house, it's simply something I can do and I won't buy what I can make ha.
Currently building a cherry dresser for my daughter from a cherry I cut down on the farm and sawed the boards at the sawmill I was previously employee at, just about have it finished. It was a lot of work, been cheaper to just buy one but that's not how I roll. Everyone gets a kick out of me and my mindset but I dont have debt either.
Mike is 100% right. I am a plumber I started my apprenticeship at 18. I graduated high school with hundreds of kids and I'd say less then 10 of us got into the trades
@@D9xAbstract yeah anybody who says a trade job can be replaced with a robot has never set foot on a construction site. Not happening for a while. You would need a incredibly advanced fully functional robot that could do so much beyond what we have now
Mike Rowe should be President of the United States.
Finding a value in yourself is more precious than gold
I like Mike so much and what he stands for. I went into the USAF reserves in high school in 1969, got the equivalent of a 4year degree in electronics in one year and when I got out was qualified for computer maintenance. 50 years later and many changes in my life, I'm still in computers and have a you-tube channel on 3D printers. We need more apprentice programs where you can learn a skill, not a degree
Mike Rowe! Classic American!
Mike Rowe for president. You would be a badass president. Got my vote.
I'm a painter, finisher. I often make a living at repairing poor workmanship of;
Carpentry
Plumbing
Installation of all manner of pre made "Stuff."
Craftsman are few and far between.
It has been a slow painful process.
"Everything is backwards."
This is Scriptural.
You REPAIR what other people FIX! :)
Same thing in the automotive industry no pride in workmanship 😢
@@curtisroberts8293 It's everywhere.
@@curtisroberts8293 I used to work in a hardware store and this lady came in one day asking for glue to hold her under mount sink up as the original glue had come loose and the sink had completely fallen in. I told her if she was loading down her sink with dishes she was putting a lot of strain on that glue as that was all that was holding the weight. I started to explain to her how even after regluing it she needed to put a brace under the sink to transfer the weight into the cabinetry. All the sudden this grimey looking guy who I guess heard our conversation and wasn't our employee came over and starting telling her she just needed the glue, and he "stole her" away and whisked her off to the glue aisle. For some reason she trusted what this guy was saying more than me and went with him. He just kept saying "Nah, you don't need to brace it. Nah!" I sometimes wonder how many people there are running around like that, and causing more problems than they solve.
@Christopher sleight hey do you finish cabinets? My dad and I built a nice tv cabinet for our backyard patio and the lacquer doesn't last long at all before it starts peeling off. Any recommendations on what finishes are good for outdoors?
When I was growing up, my dad had a service station when I was young. Then as I got older , and a oil shortage scare in the 70’s, my dad got in the restaurant business. Both businesses were hands on work, dealing with people, and doing management work. What I am going to say is, I developed a good work ethic.I learned that every person at the job has something to do and if anyone was out, everyone and everything suffered. I learned the importance of doing your job correctly the first time. I learned that when you are nice to people and be respectful that life is better, but it doesn’t mean that everyone will be happy, and that doesn’t matter because you will never make everyone happy. I learned more at work than I did at school. I do believe that school is important, but they don’t teach useful information to the youth anymore. They have ruined Boy Scouts, they use to teach useful information. The government only wants followers and robots, someone to just do what they are told and accept anything. The founding fathers were correct when they said “ without God, the Constitution will not work “ we are there now.
He is the wisest man ive ever heard and the king of common sense.
Mike just gave me a new perspective on work that finally clicked for me. I've been discerning which skilled trade to go into for several months, . My happiness, the joy of life doesn't come from self-identifying the type of work I do but from the Bread of Life. "Our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee." -St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
When I went to school it was called "Industrial Arts." I took everyone of the classes I could. They made me a well rounded person. I did maintenance and repair work for 45 years. I loved my work and only retired because of health issues.
wood working, printing, mechanical drawing, radio and electricity and auto shop. Loved them all...
I remember when they took art class away. It was terrible and sad. Art is everything about being a human
There's no reason why schools couldn't replace most wood shop tools with a CNC machine shared throughout the district, and a bunch of 3D printers at each school. Students would learn the same concepts.
@@conchobar would be cool to have either/both for them I’m sure, but the skills I learned in each of those were dramatically different.
To my fellow Vo-tech grads from days gone past, I salute you.
This may seem like a minor detail, but I LOVE the fact that Mike speaks clearly, coherently, without saying "uh" every other word, and without inserting meaningless noise like "you know" all the time. Someone who can speak intelligently off the cuff is a rare bird these days.
He's so right! I was in woodshop and welding shop. I learned so much that it's still in me. It is creative so it is an art. It was called Industrial Arts at the time in Texas.
"Happiness" comes from wanting what you have, not having what you want.
There is a pride and sense of accomplishment with work and people have forgotten that. It's not just go to work repeat no the generation of the great depression prayed for work not just money but a chance to accomplish something besides be depressed
Our local High School still has auto mechanics class and woods class ! They’ve been voted one of the top 50 school systems in the US
Lets take all the CRT funding in our schools and put it towards Vocational training...
No it's to simple
It boggles my mind how it can be institutionalized that all kids in america will be taught an idealogy that virtually nobody agrees with... even a good number of democrats.
If government supplies high end education, it's value drops. If government creates supply of vocations the value of vocations drops. Artificially increasing vocation would destroy it's value. It's all a function of supply and demand.
Many schools still have courses like that but kids don't want nothing to do with it.
I am not sure how many people are aware of this, I know of it because it directly effected me. During the Clinton administration, the government pulled the ability for trade schools across the nation to process federal education loans. They made a different set of rules for trade schools than for universities in regards to loan defaults. This caused trade schools of various types to close their doors. The administration claimed that a university education was more beneficial for the workforce of tomorrow. Personally, I think that they knew the universities would be a more controllable vector for indoctrination. CRT is coming at us now as a direct result of university graduates entering the workforce.
As a heavy duty equipment technician instructor, this is extremely well said.
One of my sons is a heavy equipment mechanic. Hes bypassed most of his college track friends, buying a house at 24 and having fun at work.
The jobs society needs the most is the jobs that society values the least.
Imagination+Creativity+art+design+craft+function that solves a need+story+real life experience knowledge and sharing the manageable risks and dangers together =value
Every time you do something make your small child stand and watch and help if they can. When I was grown I hooked up a gas line just from my dad teaching me one time when I was 10 years old.
Same thing with my old man, I'm a career IT professional by choice but can paint a house, pull and engine, make furniture, lay brick, pour concrete and a host of other "menial" things because he made me watch and do.
So you broke the law
Simply STAY OUT OF DEBT and many doors will open for you!
Mike Rowe for President! In all seriousness.
Man. Mike Rowe is the one I would want sitting next to me on a 12 hour flight. He is SO deep. And I bet that would be the fastest plane trip ever!
For the past 30 something years I’ve been an aircraft mechanic and now industrial turbine mechanic and worked on my own cars. It seems that some of that has rubbed off on my daughter. She just graduated high school and is enrolled at Lincoln Tech in automotive collision and body repair. I’m proud of her. It’s going to be a dirty job but she wants to paint cars.
Girls have great eye for colors. Some day you may see something that will blow your brain.
@@danmacgowan8242 Yes they do!
All I can say is great job!
@@ryanwolf4101 Thanks.
@@danmacgowan8242 I’m hoping she’ll use my car as a class project. It needs paint.
I chose to become a welder out of high school. 17 years later I don't regret my choice. I've worked some very difficult jobs. Now it makes me sick that I may have to pay for other peoples college education.
A good welder is worth their weight in gold.
What are you willing to do for others? Why live in a society full of people you hate? Will zero taxes make you that much richer? When you get to heaven will you tell God: "I spent it ALL on Me!"?
@@theoccasionalvideo. Surely you don’t mean to suggest that government, with its taxing power, holds a monopoly on altruism?
The topic under discussion here is college educations. If a college education really yields to an increase in earning power such that it is “worthwhile”, then there should be no need for taxpayers to bail out student borrowers. If it doesn’t-then it’s a luxury, pure and simple.
The poster didn’t say he wanted to hoard his earnings all to himself, that he didn’t want to help anyone else, or that he loathes the society in which he lives. He merely said he didn’t want to have to fund for others, a luxury that he himself had foregone; which is a perfectly reasonable position to take.
Man, I have a degree and I'm just sick of the whole system. The way it was put to me was that if I didn't get a degree I wouldn't amount to nothin... So being young and naive, I did it and got the paper. I hated it, but I finished it, and in the end I joined the Navy for a completely different kind of job in a trade. I still have a little student loan debt (it came down to buy a house, or pay it all off... I chose to buy a house, which was definitely the right financial choice). Anyway, I can see how it would be sickening to think about your hard earned tax dollars going to pay off some 'liberal elites' student loans that got them a job slinging coffee. The truth is not usually such an extreme as that though, and is usually more like my own case. You just don't hear about such cases because we're just paying it off and making the best of it.
The truth is that this economic system is crap. All trades should be taught in high school for anyone wanting, and young students shouldn't be allowed to sign up at 18 for loans that often times match the value of a house. Would you give a mortgage to an 18 year old fresh out of high school? Hell no. Trades people need and deserve a ton of support too, just as badly, if not more so, than any college grad swamped with loans.
America is the wealthiest nation the world has ever known. We need do need people with higher education, and I think it should be like it was in the 80s when universities were mostly publicly funded and the cost was low. Return it to that, and then raise the academic standard required so that young dummies like I was don't get in. Let's get more trades people, and lets get them a stronger wage through unions. And then lets reverse the normalization of trade with china, bring on some tarriffs, and lets bring back manufacturing to North America. The common every day people of America should have a standard of living that is envied by every single other country on the entire planet. Instead we're watching China prepare to surpass the US.
/rent end.
@@zugzug6773 You were a kid then, trust me it gets a lot harder as you age. Physical work has worn down my body. My joints kill me every day. I feel chronically depressed and undervalued. No one cares about who I am, just how much I make, what I do, and what car I drive. Labor gets virtually no respect from anyone. Every day I wish I had been born more academically gifted so that I could lead a different life. I know I dropped a lot on you just now, but the grass is not always greener, my friend.
Mike Rowe!! Beautifully said! 🙌
I graduated high school in 2007 and we did not have shop class or home economics. I really wish we did. I am now having to learn from TH-cam how to do things I should have learned in school. However, I don't have access to wood cutting equipment so may have to pay to take a shop class. I'm sure it will be worth it.
I unfortunately fell for the scam that was college. Did not help me at all. I try to tell young people not to fall for this scam but they don't always listen. The scammers are too good. 😔
I REALLY appreciate Mike Rowe......
This is all very true. My goal was to be an architect but out of necessity I went to work in food industry at the age of 17. Now at 41, I love what I do as a chef in a hospital.
In middle school in the 90's we were taught 'tech prep or college prep'
I stayed on the technical side of things until I left high school in the early ⁰⁰' s been plumbing full time ever since. In short you can either pay someone to do everything for you or have the means to do it your self. At the end of the day it is called a "trade" for a reason. Thank you're true blue collar mechanic's, HVAC, electrician's, Plumbers, construction etc. We make tomorrow better.
I wish mike would run for president. He would represent this country well
The sound of a metal trowel, skimming across the mixed aggregate of a freshly plastered wall, is the most soothing sound imaginable....
A solid plasterer with 35 years experience, a family trade going back centuries. I imagine the Creator, used a trowel, when designing the Cosmos.....
I’m a college grad and I’m working as a debt collector and I really needed this.
Was your focus of study in college to become a debt collector?
@@bubbablazer2 obviously not
How's that job? What's it like?
@@JenkemSuperfan it is very challenging
Many ppl are not very nice when they have a something they owe 😅
@@JenkemSuperfan thanks for asking
He related to my life so well i had to rewind and hear it all again! Literally tears hearing someone acknowledge the had work and life of the bottom classes... 💯
4 years trade school,no college, 38 years self employed, no debt net worth more than I could have ever imagined, and HAPPY
The happiest secular lesson I ever learned was .. write this down .
I was looking for a job when I found this one.
Write it down and learn it an what it means.. you are not your job work or even trade.
We have forgotten how to make things, and now we need to re-learn.
We do it needs to start sooner then later
@bobcat baldfat drunkbeater Yes, but that was back when China was a source of massive cheap labor. They still have cheap labor, but it's less cheap, and the quality is terrible.
Now it makes sense to make things here again.
I completely agree. This is what we're missing, is called common sense. We need more people who think like Mike and the other people on dirty jobs. Thanks.
I love that man.
If you want to be happy with your job take pride in your work not your job. I warehouse for a tire company. I never thought I would ever work in a warehouse but I take pride in my work and work hard to be proud of my work and it gives me satisfaction in my life to work hard and be proud of my work.