Mike Rowe Interview

I just watched an interview of Mike Rowe about the high cost of college and here is what I found out. To start off Mike explains what he sees as the real problem that the cost has cropped up over the past 40 years in America and its not working. The amount is a trillion dollars in debt on the students’ loan side and a large skills gap.

Mr. Rowe also explains all P.R. campaigns go too far.  P.R stands for Public Relations which means the practice of managing the spread of information between individuals or an organization.

Mr. Rowe has created a campaign called “work hard and smart”. He is against the idea of the taxpayer supporting loans going to college. He gets a little curious, when the debt gets to a trillion dollars. He is suggesting we’ve gone around the bend a little bit.

Mr. Rowe mentions the cost of a degree has increased over 500 times the rate of inflation since the mid- 80s. I actually found this really interesting.

As the interview continued he is asked how he creates better work ethics in people. He said that he thinks it has something to do with being suspicious of anything that is too easy, being suspicious of anything that doesn’t hurt a little bit. It has something to do with the willingness to find and take the reverse commute.

The interviewer asked Mr. Rowe if schools should be more in the business of doing tech stuff? Mike says they probably shouldn’t do it. He also stated if he depended on a skilled workforce then he would not depend on a public education system to provide for him.

While continuing to watching the video the interviewer discusses why men have lower rates than women. Technically he doesn’t know, but he does say there is probably some obvious crossing over.  More opportunities have been made available and more women can avail themselves to them.

About 32 minutes into the video the discussion turned to explaining if technology was the problem. Mike says it’s not a problem. The displacement theory is interesting. He actually read it in his own industry. Like the idea was the newspaper would displace the telegraph, and then movies would displace books, and TV would displace movies. I was really intrigued.

Mike mentions jobs are vanishing and people need to somehow recalibrate in this world of hyper efficiency. I will always remember that because I myself am looking for a job and I need to start looking fast before they run out.

In conclusion I have never heard of Mike Rowe he is an amazing guy, and he gave good advice. I loved at the end when he said “is real education is reality TV?” I will sometime watch an episode of Dirty Jobs it sounds really good.