I think Mike hit it dead on. Check this out lemme know what you think.
http://www.mikeroweworks.com/2009/07...mission-video/
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I think Mike hit it dead on. Check this out lemme know what you think.
http://www.mikeroweworks.com/2009/07...mission-video/
My initial reaction is: Shame on Discovery channel for not giving this 3 seconds of air time... even it if it's Mike's idea, vision & work entirely..
I've watched Dirty Jobs enough that that I would have heard about this, but it looks like this site was launched 6 months ago, and this is the first I've heard of it?
on the surface it seems like a good idea- will look into it further, thanks for the link!
Ya same here... Don't even remember how I ran across it this morning before I went to work. Just now starting to take a look at the website. Haven't had the time to look at everything on there but I completely agree with Mike. I'm so sick of my job right now I may have to go get a dirty job... Being kept up in a cage all day with a bunch of bitches sucks....Quote:
Originally Posted by 68Charger
Oh man, what perfect timing for this video.
I've got a BA in Economics, and I've never even tried to get a job in my field, nor do I plan to. I've been looking for a new job, but have NO idea where to look. I don't have any trade skills, but I'm certainly smart enough to learn and develop them. I CAN successfully do the office work that I've got experience in, but it's not really something that I particularly love.
I've spent a lot of my (young) life feeling that people should go off and go to college. Now, I've changed that slightly to say that being educated is extremely important, but not necessarily in the "college" that everyone is pressured into. I know a ton of people who are plenty smart enough, and a formal college education (at least right after high school) would be wasted on them and they wouldn't even finish. Personally, I think that learning a trade should be held equally as high a Bachelor's degree. Sure Economics can sound snazzy to some people, but when my dish washer breaks and floods my kitchen, or I'd like to tear down a wall, or even go camping, all that stuff I learned about free markets isn't going to help me at all. I loved going to college, and would never change a thing, but I also have noticed that skilled labor is important, and seems to be dwindling and looked down upon. I'm always a little jealous of guys who are 1) military and 2) skilled labor.
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skilled labor is important
You know Stu,, 22years of being "Skilled labor",, That is the first time I have ever known an "Office type" admit that..
I'll be the 2nd, then.. I have a desk job... and I absolutely think skilled labor is important!
There are many times when I'd rather be working with my hands than pushing a pencil (or keyboard- virtual pencil)
I do network implementation- a design engineer dreams it up, we build it.. without the skilled labor to build that equipment, install it, power it up, maintain it, we wouldn't get anything done..
I do all my own work on my cars, because I miss working with my hands.. at work, it's all just voices over the phone & dots on the computer screen anymore.. maybe I'm not an "office type" at heart, but it's my job...
You guys may bring a tear to my eye...
[LOL]
Seriously though,,, Thank you...
Whats this first and second crap I posted it!Quote:
Originally Posted by 68Charger
Joking aside I do miss my construction job sometimes... sure I would go home and be tired but at least I could fall asleep when I wanted to. Not lay in bed for however long trying to get stuff out of my head being all stressed out and unhappy. Maybe its just my office but everyone is against each other. "why can so and so do or wear that?" or some other crap.
Plus it kept me in decent shape. This last summer I helped my parents redo their fence one weekend and it kicked my ass trying dig the holes for the fence post. (the pos auger we rented wasn't worth a damn and got stuck on rocks and stuff... would have been cake had I still been in shape....
Most of all I just miss being outside and moving around. Being stuck in a chair all day without even a window to look out sucks feels like prison.
Help!
One more thing though,,
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a design engineer dreams it up, we build it..
Tell the damn engineer,, it don't always fit in reality, as nice as it does on paper..
[Tooth]
I do... as often as I can... especially when they're trying to use the latest whiz-bang device available (we like to call it Bleeding edge technology)Quote:
Originally Posted by Marlin
and then the bean counter sticks his head in, and says he's got to cut costs, too.. [Bang]
and Viper- you may have posted a link to it, but you didn't SAY it.. [ROFL1]
there's a new Ram truck commercial out that I was reminded of, I'll see if I can find it.... something about rolling up your sleeves..
also reminds me of a Teddy Roosevelt quote:
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.""Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910