Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot
This helps protect our community. Learn more
These chapters are auto-generated

Intro

0:00

Introduction

0:17

The real problem

1:30

Jobs that cant be filled

2:00

Jobs that pay well

2:20

Get that sheepskin

3:03

Work smart not hard

3:20

Work smart and hard

5:12

Work smart and hard goals

6:04

What is a work ethic scholarship

6:57

Where did work ethic go wrong

7:50

The college loan scam

8:39

Cost of a degree

9:20

Debt

10:47

Demonization

11:32

His grandfather

12:30

Learning the pleasures of dirty work

13:06

The classic freelancer

14:55

Where the word freelancer came from

15:38

Developing a stronger work ethic

16:19

Following your passion

16:38

What should schools do

18:48

Should businesses do apprenticeships

19:33

Credentialism

21:03

How do you get around it

22:02

Compliance

23:44

Safety

25:14

Romanticizing

26:29

Earnings and Unemployment

26:53

Crisis Among Men

29:52

Shovel Ready Jobs

31:31

Recalibration

36:10

Whats next

38:22
Dirty Jobs' Mike Rowe on the High Cost of College (Full Interview)
25KLikes
1,570,060Views
2013Dec 13
"If we are lending money that ostensibly we don't have to kids who have no hope of making it back in order to train them for jobs that clearly don't exist, I might suggest that we've gone around the bend a little bit," says TV personality Mike Rowe, best known as the longtime host of Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs. "There is a real disconnect in the way that we educate vis-a-vis the opportunities that are available. You have - right now - about 3 million jobs that can't be filled," he says, talking about openings in traditional trades ranging from construction to welding to plumbing. "Jobs that typically parents' don't sit down with their kids and say, 'Look, if all goes well, this is what you are going to do.'" Rowe, who once sang for the Baltimore Opera and worked as an on-air pitchman for QVC, worries that traditional K-12 education demonizes blue-collar fields that pay well and are begging for workers while insisting that everyone get a college degree. He stesses that he's "got nothing against college" but believes it's a huge mistake to push everyone in the same direction regardless of interest or ability. Between Mike Rowe Foundation and Profoundly Disconnected, a venture between Rowe and the heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar, Rowe is hoping both to help people find new careers and publicize what he calls "the diploma dilemma." Rowe recently sat down with Reason's Nick Gillespie to discuss his bad experience with a high school guidance counselor (3:20), why he provides scholarships based on work ethic (6:57), the problem with taxpayer-supported college loans (8:40), why America demonizes dirty jobs (11:32), the happiest day of his life (13:14), why following your passion is terrible advice (17:05), why it's so hard to hire good people (21:04), the hidden cost of regulatory compliance (23:16), the problem with Obama's promise to create shovel ready jobs (33:05), efficiency versus effectiveness (34:17), and life after Dirty Jobs (38:24). Aprrox. 41 minutes. Cameras by Meredith Bragg and Joshua Swain. Edited by Bragg. Visit http://reason.com/reasontv/2013/12/13... for full text, links, and downloadable versions and subscribe to Reason TV's YouTube Channel to receive automatic updates when new material goes live.

Follow along using the transcript.

ReasonTV

1.18M subscribers