Spend Saturday Morning with Dirty Jobs’ Mike Rowe Talking College Debt, Work Ethic, and Blue Collar Jobs
Nick Gillespie & Meredith Bragg|Dec. 15, 2013 9:30 am
If it’s Sunday morning, it’s Reason’s deliberate counter-programming to the boring, Team Red/Team Blue yak shows. Here’s a 40-minute-long conversation with Mike Rowe, popular host of Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs show. Originally released on Friday, here’s the writeup:
“If we are lending money that ostensibly we don’t have to kids who have no hope of making it back in order to train them for jobs that clearly don’t exist, I might suggest that we’ve gone around the bend a little bit,” says TV personality Mike Rowe, best known as the longtime host of Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs.
“There is a real disconnect in the way that we educate vis-a-vis the opportunities that are available. You have – right now – about 3 million jobs that can’t be filled,” he says, talking about openings in traditional trades ranging from construction to welding to plumbing. “Jobs that typically parents’ don’t sit down with their kids and say, ‘Look, if all goes well, this is what you are going to do.'”
https://reason.com/blog/2013/12/15/spend-sunday-morning-with-dirty-jobs-mik