Learning from dirty jobs | Mike Rowe

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Recommends pbj · 2012-03 · on “Low pay low stress jobs/lifestyle”

You might want to check out Mike Rowe's Ted talk, he touches on some of this. [this video] I'm in the process of changing careers now. I tried doing the IT thing for several years and ended up hating it. There was a lot of poor work/life balance, stress with meeting deadlines, poor job security (I'm not a developer), etc. This was with several different companies so I don't think it was just poor luck. My passion is working with computers & technology but I realized one day that it just wasn't worth it for me to be so stressed out. So I spent some time researching careers and I'm now going back community college for something health related. The job security is outstanding, the stress is fairly l

Recommends shantanubala · 2013-01 · on “All My Life I’ve Been Told I Was Special. It Was A Lie.”

I don't think anyone knows what they really like when they're young, and I believe even more firmly that parents are usually a better source of influence than peers. These are obviously generalizations, but I think Mike Rowe explains it best: [this video]

Recommends InclinedPlane · 2013-03 · on “What Being a Handyman Has Taught Me About Male Insecurity”

I took AP classes in college, and I work in the software industry, but I still know how to work with my hands and I'm very happy to have that knowledge. It's not that hard, if you feel bad about not knowing anything, go learn, go take a class or two, go read a book or two, go ask a friend, or use the internet, there are a million excellent resources out there. Pick a simple project and do it, then do another project. Stocking a basic toolbox is extraordinarily inexpensive, there's really no reason not to have one. I think the reason so many people aren't as handy as they used to be has to do more with culture than with anything else, here's an excellent TED talk from Mike Rowe (from Dirty Jo

Recommends alexashka · 2015-04 · on “Best, Brightest – and Saddest?”

This is actually an even more extreme trend among some of the asian immigrant folks I've been in school with - their parents can be incredibly close-minded, overbearing and abusive. The pressure kids feel is largely fictional, in the sense that the world ISN'T going to end if they 'only go to college'. For example when I graduated highschool and went straight to college and some of the folks I knew stayed behind for an extra year to get their grades up - my parents in unison with me, thought they were failures. Looking back - it was smart. I am not working in the field that I studied, so the joke is on me :) Another thing to realize is that there are a number of jobs that are not intellectua

Cites raverbashing · 2015-03 · on “Antiwork – a radical shift in how we view “jobs””

Exactly As much as I'd like to work in a antiwork position, it's very complicated society-wise (especially due to the fact that there aren't that many jobs) Relevant [this video]

Cites wcchandler · 2018-07 · on “‘Find Your Passion’ Is Awful Advice”

Mike Rowe has a short video on this: [LINK] Just rewatched his TED talk and he brings it up around ~12 minutes in: [this video]