Mike Rowe on What Works

Mike Rowe: We've made work the 'enemy'

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The thing about “mere symbols”...is that they represent “mere ideas,” and “mere ideas” are the backbone of "mere humanity." In the case of the flag, we’re talking about ideas that are wrapped into the Constitution – a document that separates us from every other country on the planet.
Mere ideas are the reason people fight and die. Mere ideas are the reason we’re allowed to speak freely, protest publicly, bear arms, and burn the very symbol that represents those very freedoms. I didn’t suggest that you or anyone else be denied your right to fly or burn whatever flag you wish. What I failed to do, is quietly accept behavior I don’t care for. Which, if I’m not mistaken, is the same compulsion that motivates others to publicly express themselves in whatever ways they choose.

-Mike Rowe

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This business of conflating hard work with forced labor not only minimizes the importance of a decent work ethic, it diminishes the unspeakable horror of slavery.

-Mike Rowe, on Melissa Harris-Perry's mind drool

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“Some jobs pay better, some jobs smell better, and some jobs have no business being treated like careers. But work is never the enemy, regardless of the wage. Because somewhere between the job and the paycheck, there’s still a thing called opportunity, and that’s what people need to pursue.”

-Mike Rowe

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"Never follow your passion, but always bring it with you."

-Mike Rowe

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I always thought there something ill-fated about the promise of three million “shovel ready jobs” made to a society that no longer encourages people to pick up a shovel.

- Mike Rowe

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"When people are motivated, instead of lectured, they're more likely to do right by the environment."
Mike Rowe- Dirty Jobs , on a story about recovering timber submerged for over a hundred years.