Learning from dirty jobs | Mike Rowe

Why HN readers recommended it

It comes up in threads on career choice, trades, handiness and the 'follow your passion' advice.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

TED

Topic

value of hard work

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2012–2018

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• You might want to check out Mike Rowe's Ted talk, he touches on some of this. [VIDEO] I'm in the process of changing careers now. I tried doing the IT thing for several years and ended up hating it. There was a lot of poor …

• I don't think anyone knows what they really like when they're young, and I believe even more firmly that parents are usually a better source of influence than peers. These are obviously generalizations, but I think Mike Rowe explains it best: [VIDEO]

• I took AP classes in college, and I work in the software industry, but I still know how to work with my hands and I'm very happy to have that knowledge. It's not that hard, if you feel bad about not knowing anything, go learn, …