Mike Rowe Has A Powerful Message for Occupy Protesters | TheBlaze

'Somebody's Gotta Do It' star Mike Rowe has a message for Occupy-type protesters taking the streets this October.(Video: Josiah Ryan bit.ly/1Kj0iWo)
Mike Rowe’s latest show “Somebody’s Gotta Do It” profiles people who perform unique jobs and airs on CNN Sundays at 10 p.m. ET.
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[@josebenitez3732]

At one point in my younger years I was desperate for a job that I turned to the Yellow Pages. One call asked how I knew they were looking for someone, I said, "i didn't, but was using the Yellow Pages." They said, they wanted me and hired me on the spot. Although the hours were long, I stuck to it. One day was called into the office and the owner handed me an unsolicited letter of commendation and a phone number to help me in the future, should I need it. Be the Best at what you do, no matter how glorious or humble it be.

[@Grid3341]

I had a similar experience. I printed up heaps of my ,very thin at the time, resume / work history, and started walking. There was 19% youth unemployment. I had a job by the end of the day.

[@leadpersuasion]

Mike is awesome!

[@leadpersuasion]

+TheTruthQuest123 Do explain how my comment makes me an idiot.

[@utoobube]

+leadpersuasion you're not, guys like the truthquest are just assholes who believe their fucked up opinion should be shared by everyone.

[@melaniemorris667]

My dad always told me to Be the best at your job no matter what you are doing. Gotta love Mike!

[@tmb24jr]

"Get over yourself." - I love it.

[@christopherstaton1645]

Mike Rowe, I gave almost the same speech about ditch diggers as my valedictorian speech at high school graduation in 1990. I went on to a BS in Physics from a private university, and worked for several years in academia and the private sector. After realizing I wasn't happy, I have spent the last 20 years as a field mechanic in the elevator industry and love it! I am a living example of what Mike speaks so passionately about, re-evaluate your idea of success and your ideas of what constitutes a good job. You might find that both can be combined and make a comfortable 6-figure salary simultaneously..

[@MrTom1468]

what a great message

[@MrTom1468]

***** wow you proved your point with nothing but a insult. Now everyone knows how intelligent you are

[@bronco66r]

And you may be surprised how personally satisfying it is to do any job well and how it changes the way you feel about yourself.

[@MrHanvin375]

Every word so true.

[@troyclayton7289]

Good point Mike brought up about ditch digging. Remember even Tesla dug ditches.

[@troyclayton7289]

What part of my statement makes me an idiot?

[@thaichatham]

+Troy Clayton That's exactly what it reminded me of :)

[@burthollabaugh2182]

Tesla signed away patients worth millions for the good of mankind.

[@jackspear6101]

I have always always respected Mr Rowe

[@Jordo_1]

words to live by

[@Christyyyytyyyyyyy]

One thing I have to agree on is no matter what job you have be grateful for it and work your butt off.

[@TheTomBevis]

Back when I had a "ditch digger" job, I always tried to be the best "ditch digger" I could. The problem with that is that the harder you work, the stupider management seems to think you are. One example: I once had a job sewing rolls of knit fabric tubes together to run through a fabric treatment machine. After a week, I noticed that the average roll size was about 25 pounds, and two rolls at a time were divided off the stream at a time for further processing. I started picking out rolls that added up to 50 pounds to make downstream processing easier on everyone else. It was satisfying to see all those even-sized rolls going out to make gloves. I did once get criticized of having more than two buggies of raw product at my station once, so I started selecting buggies with large rolls alternating with buggies of small rolls. I was able to prevent finished rolls from varying between ~20 pounds to over 80 pounds by just using a little simple addition. Management never even noticed, until I quit that job. One of them probably instituted that as a policy after I was gone, and got a bonus for it. That didn't require much skill, not like my work now, as a industrial maintenance craftsman. But I still see the same attitude from management. MBA = mediocre but arrogant. Be born rich, people!

[@fluffyfullbox9289]

I started out picking blueberry's. And today I have a appreciation for farm laborers.

[@biker1373]

It's not the job you have ,it's the job you do !

[@johnogo7886]

Yeah don’t be afraid of hard work it’ll do you a lot of good!

[@JesseH]

Priceless

[@moonmaiden1973]

Love this man!

[@DrRChandra]

"Be the best X"...I first heard that as part of a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speech.

[@tomd1871]

Word

[@tak178]

I love this man. Logical to a fault.

[@SaintClutch]

if you can't find a job I'll bet ur degree isn't medical, engineering, accounting, or IT related. business is always good too. There are far worse jobs than digging ditches, and if you live in America you have nothing to complain about that's blessing enough to be thankful for

[@udeedu3219]

Go dig ditches and you will appreciate anything you have the opportunity to do after. But you only get those opportunities because you were humble enough to first pick up the shovel.

[@Smokercraft427]

I would vote for him over Trump 6 days a week and twice on Sunday.

[@GhostInTheShell29]

Vote early and vote often I can respect that. :)

[@leonardusdesignleonardusde3479]

Love

[@DARIVSARCHITECTVS]

Way to go Mike! I love your ability to express things that are common sense to those that don't seem to get it, and especially those who don't WANT to get it. I've dug ditches on occasion, when it was required at the time or when nothing else was available. I didn't whine or felt superior to it. It was work that needed doing. Now I'm a nuclear professional, and only dig ditches in my yard for whatever landscaping needs doing. All the other menial jobs I had on the way up taught me skills that I continue to rely upon no matter what my current job is. Whiny young brats who think the world owes them a living had better wake up and get to work or they will not have enough food to become whiny old brats.

[@DARIVSARCHITECTVS]

***** Calling me names will not convince me your opinion is the correct one.

[@xxxburke]

+DARIVS ARCHITECTVS he posted this down the board. just report him

[@Titus-as-the-Roman]

The loud acoustic guitar music in the background is extremely annoying, would have been a lot more effective if turned down a few decibels.

[@krystalharwood6359]

super happy the Story Behind the Story special he has on tbn with Matt Crouch hasnt been squashed because he is more politicak than religious

[@krystalharwood6359]

political

[@coltbusick6644]

This is an old video now, but it’s a refreshing perspective. I have a four year degree and was only able to land a job in unskilled labor. While some of Rowe’s words are tough for me to swallow, he does have a point. The idea of gambling so much on school and then demanding a good job is overly idealistic, almost fantasy. There really should be more respect for labor that doesn’t require college. A systemic change would help, certainly, but it will also require a social and cultural shift in our country.

[@GameTesterBootCamp]

BGM is way too loud. Other than that, good video.

[@cartesianphantom7396]

I like Mike. He has some valid points, but overall very naive.

[@GhostInTheShell29]

You should really watch Mike Rowe's presentation for Ted Talks. I think he is very knowledgeable on these subjects. When he gets a lot of time to talk and explain. Here he was just briefly going over his feeling on this subject. The labor market is a very complex web and really every group has some responsibility for how screwed up it is. The government, educational system wall street corruption they do put up hurdles for everyone to get ahead, but your never going to get anywhere if you just sit there complaining about the hurdles. This country is terribly short on skilled labor. Its tough to get into because usually it means starting at the bottom and working your way up. But if people would do that, they would make a lot more money because once you learn some of these skills the sky can really be the limit when it comes to salary. Far more then many college educated people will ever make.

[@cartesianphantom7396]

GhostInTheShell29 I will give his Ted Talk a look, but I suspect that Mike Rowe doesn't know much about education in general and higher education especially.

[@bronco66r]

@@cartesianphantom7396 Wow I think you should reserve your judgement until you know a little more about someone

[@fluffyfullbox9289]

Fix your own car, Fix your own house. And stop bothering me.

[@albertslick1237]

Foreign states often present the President of the United States with gifts. While President, George Washington received a painting of, and key to, the Bastille from the Marquis de Lafayette, as "a tribute Which I owe as A Son to My Adoptive father."[24] After leaving office, Washington also took home to Mount Vernon a painting of Louis XIV that he had received as a gift from a French diplomat who had been his aide during the American war of independence.[25] However, nothing is known about Washington’s motivations, or whether he considered the emoluments clause to apply to either gift

[@tymetrumain8931]

How'd the microbiopsy

[@smarkl54bbin]

Hooray Mike. Far better Eagle scout than Michael Moore.

[@pillznarRy]

+TheTruthQuest123 said "might wanna watch some Thom Hartmann, mike papantonio, Mike malloy here on YT and get a brain" lololololololololololololololololol....... (takes breath) lololololololololololololol

[@walterbakos458]

The golden rual

[@freddenstman8773]

Mike Rowe for president, or maybe HEW secretary.

[@patmason7276]

Get experience learn on the way up your better for it. Schools now tell kids hold out for top jobs.( Experience).

[@bluhturn1051]

Look up productivity vs wages. This guy is an opera singer who has never worked a day in his life.

[@thesenutz77]

This MF needs to run for president!

[@nicolevaliente8391]

Having a degree is a book. Did you read it? Now so what is your experience............having a trade have much better chance to get you a job So for the COLLEGE DEGREE stop waisting your time and don’t take any loan if you cannot pay it back

[@petehoward8494]

Love Mike Rowe, but I really wish he would start to speak more plainly. "Get over yourself" is a good start. My answer to the first question would be "Get a job", which was basically the same as his, but with a lot more gentle sensitive words.

[@hk-1290]

F-CK that gettin up early & staying late all that means I make my boss or their bosse's wealthier off my back 🔙 F-CK THAT!

[@maryshaffer8474]

If they had stayed with uncovering malfeasance in the biggest institutions and fixing what they saw, it devolved into focusing on overturning into of fixing.

[@davidlabarca4268]

There are good jobs. There are bad jobs. That does not mean you'll get a good one. But yeah there are such things as actually good and bad jobs.

[@jimmartin181]

Good dialog.....music too loud

[@ImprovmanZero]

Can someone point me to where to see what to retool to get one of these jobs?

[@patricklehigh9019]

mikeroweworks

[@ImprovmanZero]

Patrick Lehigh thanks

[@firegod001]

He's got a good attitude about jobs, but his attitude is not exclusive to conservative thinking. It has very little if anything to do with the Republican Party or even the Libertarian Party. A great many liberals and Democrats feel the same way; the difference is that they don't usually point to the other side and pretend that other side is fighting against that good attitude. I'm not talking about Mike Rowe, because I've never seen or heard him do this; I'm talking about many Republicans in general and some imbeciles posting on this video.

[@adub4ever]

Occupy Wall Street was mainly about the bank bailouts and the collapse of our financial system. Mike Rowe has no idea what he't talking about.

[@Celedam]

+adub4ever So what about all those signs demanding more funding for green energy, the Peace Corps, and student loan forgiveness? Not to mention the Workers Party literature pretty much everywhere. And don't tell me that didn't happen, I saw it with my own eyes.

[@adub4ever]

Celedam there were occupy events all over the country. Of course there were other "left wing" causes, but the main purpose of OWS was to protest the bank bailouts. Which is why Mike Rowe is an idiot.

[@Celedam]

adub4ever No, you're an idiot, because you don't seem to grasp the difference between your personal "truth" and the hard reality that the rest of us live in. The OWS movement was whatever it appeared to be to disinterested bystanders like Mr. Rowe and myself. If that included other "causes" that glommed on and tried to take advantage of the situation, oh well, that's life. It was *not* whatever some ideological purist insists it must have been, years after the fact. Perception is reality. If you don't like it, it's your own fault for losing control of the message. As far as the rest of us are concerned, the OWS movement _was_ a mob of flea-ridden communists raping each other and shitting on police cars, and that is how it will be remembered a hundred years from now.

[@adub4ever]

Celedam so much hatred. I feel sorry for you.

[@SamuraiBatgirl]

+adub4ever Nothing he said was hateful.

[@maxim30]

um...were those vacant jobs? Because if they are not then his position is bs.

[@TheZeffan]

maxim30 Duh, yes ...and the number of vacant, available jobs requiring “hands on” skill or some trades experience has increased to over 5 MILLION at the end of 2018. I wouldn’t have spent the time and money to get my Bachelors of Arts and Graduate degree years ago knowing what I know now. Stay out of the ultra-left, debt making colleges and universities AT ALL COSTS. Trust me, you will be happier if you do.

[@bluhturn1051]

He’s a boomer that has never worked a day in his life.

[@Tom-fw2jr]

there is alot of talk about ditch digging. I am in my late fifties, I used shovels, pitch forks, hammers, saws and cleaned out septic tanks in those fifty+ years. Mike doesn't bring up the fact I can no longer stand up straight, knees gone and walk with pain. Maybe Mike should put in a disclaimer about that. I was raised to never complain, if I got hurt I was to"rub some dirt on it" and get back out there. Plus opportunities were few where I lived. I imagine would have been even fewer if I was black or woman. In short, Mike over simplifies the issue. I would have done it differentially if I could do it over again.

[@thisisthebeginning4425]

Honest and to the point. Thats why every Union workers son ive ever met went to college. Mike Rowe makes it sound as if its noble to struggle in the heat, cold and injuries as you described.

[@truthseek3017]

Mike Rowe is biased. He didn't grow up in our time, cost of living is insane today and the workplace has never been so competitive. The baby boomers are not retiring out of the workplace aswell.

[@unknowncoinartist]

mike rowe does alot of dirty jobs but the dirtiest job on the planet he wont do. what job is that you ask i say politics

[@FreedomFreys]

Who would want that nasty ass job? lol. Can't blame him for having morals haha

[@ShakinJamacian]

As correct as Mike is on focusing on what does exist, there's a great problem he has absolutely failed to consider: technology risks destroying the labor system as is. We genuinely, sincerely risk a society where people are not unemployed, but unemployable. This is an issue very few are talking about, and if we're talking about labor, we need to mention the futility of the ideas we hold today, for they're weakening in the transition of the future. Couple that with the fact we're going to need a growth of jobs never before seen in human history to counterbalance this, and the direction should seem obvious: the have/have not social game of labor will only expand, not contract. Our conversation should be about what will we do when labor seems better fit for machines than people. The idea we can reasonably employ everyone *already* is untrue, and that number will only be even more impossible to hit. Telling people to just get a job is in fact an insoluble proposition, even including the gap Mike speaks about. We have a gap *and* a void happening. Even education is a net negative to this problem. We need to be more mindful about the whole situation here, for it's far more binary than "get a job" and "there are no jobs," especially so with machines and automation.

[@ShakinJamacian]

EpiDemic117 Please look into deep learning. That technology risks replacing many domains of labor. Anything cognitive is at risk. Mix that with physical machines and you have the removal of human capital.

[@ShakinJamacian]

EpiDemic117 You're not getting it. What you don't realize with the risks we face today isn't just a "destroy current jobs, create new ones" but where we displace so many people that there are not enough new jobs to employ them in. *This* is the danger because we've left the social mandation of labor unexamined, which, in this context, risks poverty - which is already a result of only ideas in the developed world - to expand. In fact, what you *just said* about horses is what many technologists and now economists worry will happen to many, many people.. All I am saying is the direction we risk going might actually be something we've not seen in human history. Oxford University argues the displacement of 47% of Americans from their jobs in just this century, which even hitting half of that results in an economic depression if that happens hard and fast enough. I would agree about the good regarding production and cost, but we greatly risk this creating mass inequality, which itself is already unfathomable in America. An alternative here is not a job guarantee, for many of the bad reasons that promotes, but perhaps a basic income system. But after all, we're talking about America here; we can't even get wages, social mobility, health care, college, or any decent social arrangement right. We'll fuck this up, too.

[@ShakinJamacian]

EpiDemic117 People are already getting poor in America with the lack of a raise in minimum wage. The risks of machines is it hits low level jobs, which not only risks people just being displaced, but the introduction of technology will start depressing wages. This actually is an issue for airline pilots, for example. We will also see this happen with truck drivers, the most employed position in America, as driverless truck expand from Nevada and become national. The technology as is already promotes one drive for two trucks, with the other following as a hivemind.

[@andpoo7759]

+ShakinJamacian So you think machines are just gonna learn to fix themselves? they'll learn how to fix the infrastructure they run on? they learn to update their own hardware and software? they'll learn to create new machines for unforeseeable problems or tasks? and beyond that you think humans will ever feel comfortable with a machine run world? NOBODY wants an airplane without a human pilot, they are not facing extinction. the only thing that's changing is what jobs are in demand. machines can do many things better than humans but they can't fix themselves so go to school and learn to fix them, problem solved.

[@ShakinJamacian]

and poo Education is argued as a net-negative in references to a more automated society. Then there's the fact the costs of college are crazy high in America, so people are usually shackled with $30,000 debt, on average. People already are failing in this system without the machine tsunami. We're only going to get more failures, an increase in inequality and poverty. It's not that the machines are self-serving and *no* people are needed. It's that very few are needed. How many people do you think are needed to make a self-learning system? It requires fewer than five people. We're not going to be able to migrate 9 million people there if we replace much of retail, driving, construction, and warehousing into such a direction. Those guys are *fucked*, mainly because of the social mandation of labor, which is the whole problem here. It also doesn't matter what people think and feel. In a capitalist society, the goal is to minimize costs and increase production. When a human being is up to 30% of the costs to a business, and a deep learning system is maybe 5% of costs when fully implemented, a company sticking with people is not only backwards in terms of production, but costly in terms of paper wealth. The core problem is this: if you look at how many people exist, how we demand everyone must work, and how many are needed in the technological sphere, we're talking a huge "have not" group needed in that future. This is dangerous, because anything a human being can do, we're now in an age where machines will eventually be able to do it better and cheaper. We already fail at decently employing 7 billion people on this earth, and this number is only going to get smaller as technological capability increases while the population expands. You're being too simpleminded on the topic, and while that is the norm, that norm is consistently proving incorrect and incompatible with where we're going.

[@fordprefect2397]

Last thing they want to do is Work!... Member of bernies social welfare state..

[@deniswilson8152]

And turn that annoying background down liar

[@AcidProphet]

the jobs hes talking about dont make you work 12 hours a day and cant afford your rent and food

[@FreedomFreys]

Then there's time for another job, if you think only working one is the cut-off, you are wrong. I've held 3 jobs at one time, getting 4 hours of sleep per night maximum to make my way however I had to for myself and my family. It's certainly nicer only needing one decent job to cover it all, but if that's not enough-I find other work on top of that.

[@FreedomFreys]

And millions of people have and do do the same as I'm sure you know

[@xxxburke]

Anyone can be wise: Mike is obviously smarter than your average Joe, but what he is saying can be applied by anybody.

[@xxxburke]

+TheTruthQuest123 do you care to explain why you are calling me an idiot?

[@Christyyyytyyyyyyy]

+xxxburke Because this person is copying and pasting on multiple comments, not just yours. Class A troll.

[@tymetrumain8931]

How'd the microbiopsy