Mike Rowe: The Dirty Job Guy
I watch the Discovery Channel show Dirty Jobs and really like Mike Rowe. The guy is down to earth. Two summers in the waste water treatment plant in Bensenville gave me an appreciation of dirty jobs. Sometimes I wonder how I never got cholera working at that place.
Mike Rowe has also posted a couple of things on Facebook that ring clear to me.
Mike says following your passion is bad advice because as a form of wisdom it is neither incontrovertible and applicable to everyone. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning isn't always good medicine either.
The real clincher about jobs and work in general is that often you can find a job that you really like, are good at it, and it is never something you dreamed about doing.
I dreamed of playing baseball, basketball, golf, being a jockey?, I've done almost all those things but never would have been able to make a living at any of these jobs and I still like baseball, basketball, golf, football and horse racing.
Sometimes the answer related to work isn't either one or the other, both or something completely different are also possibilities.
A dirty job sometime helps to appreciate other lines of work and sometimes a dirty job may not be what you want but they have openings in that department.
Mike Rowe has also posted a couple of things on Facebook that ring clear to me.
Mike says following your passion is bad advice because as a form of wisdom it is neither incontrovertible and applicable to everyone. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning isn't always good medicine either.
The real clincher about jobs and work in general is that often you can find a job that you really like, are good at it, and it is never something you dreamed about doing.
I dreamed of playing baseball, basketball, golf, being a jockey?, I've done almost all those things but never would have been able to make a living at any of these jobs and I still like baseball, basketball, golf, football and horse racing.
Sometimes the answer related to work isn't either one or the other, both or something completely different are also possibilities.
A dirty job sometime helps to appreciate other lines of work and sometimes a dirty job may not be what you want but they have openings in that department.
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