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Mike Rowe on whether college is worth the cost of tuition

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I’ve always thought that the term “vocational arts” is poorly chosen In fact, what is learned are skills A learned skill is demonstrated by successfully accomplishing a task Children learn a skill of tying their shoes An adult demonstrates a skill set of flying an airplane EtcbrCourtesy of Half Vast Flying
Comment from : @jackvoss5841

Yes you are a Wonderful and Smart personGod bless you and I love you so much
Comment from : @ravindertalwar553

College is worth it if you have a plan
Comment from : @pranavpillai7981

a problem that happens is these companies for the longest time paid not well at all,
Comment from : @wyattbreymeyer4033

Mike Rowe is a cool dude but I enjoy excavating work and construction you meet cool people thanks
Comment from : @bradkaberline5828

I RECKON "🕊❤🕊 😁👆br 🕊brIT'S MY JOB !
Comment from : @carolynbarney1265

DO IT YOUR SELF HOME OWNERS RUINED THE RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION MARKET !brTURN YOUR GARAGE INTO A BOOTLEG APARTMENT NO INSPECTIONbr ** NO DECLARED INCOME FOR TAX !! **brPOOOO 2 SKID ROWE !!!!
Comment from : @abcdef-kx2qt

Get the hands dirty Simple Be good JB Good Is rocking :-)
Comment from : @JoshuaTree97

Nothing like getting advice from a bunch of millionaires that aren't tradesman on why people should become tradesman
Comment from : @stinkyham9050

If anyone has a residential construction job for me please let me know because I can’t find them and I’ve been looking for months
Comment from : @DenHenson

This was wrong I knew that I wasn't good working with my hands in junior high when they forced me to take wood shop and art class I have gone to higher education, studied hard and made a great career I never have to sweat at a manual labor job eitherbrNot every one could work with their hands, nor did they wanted to
Comment from : @rampar77

I guess I could always get a job selling Kat Stacks and all the lamps on QVC😳
Comment from : @ConstantCompanion

College isn't worth the cost of tuition
Comment from : @PODSMPSG1

It depends on the major Most STEM and nursing and accounting yes Business Administration, Marketing, GENDER STUDIES LOL
Comment from : @realisticoptimist

Every parent thinks if their kid is not destined for middle management on their way to upper management, they're a loser Truck drivers can make great money Tough life though
Comment from : @typhoon320i

Mike for president!
Comment from : @mikemayfield487

My father, an old-school Chief Electrical Engineer for Bechtel Corp, specializing in nuclear plant startups, advised me prior to attending college to avoid classes like women studies, art, litature, politics and focus on science and engineering He said the aforementioned degrees were "degrees in advanced basket weaving", for all the good they did towards achieving a good paying job after graduation just sayin, my dad was right :)
Comment from : @ronmartinez6146

You know ty Mike So true so true
Comment from : @johnwheater3718

College is not the place to go if you want a job to live in the real world So don't waste your time Seriously college is just one big social experiment in which you attempt to meet people Really that's all it is If you want to get serious about gaining real skills that will feed a family go to a trade school You'll prepare for the real world instead of wasting your time at a college for some worthless degree that gives you nothing but debt
Comment from : @JTDyer21

weather
Comment from : @williamstanton1067

$16 trillion update! Wrong direction two years later I don’t see a manufacturing renaissance happening either! Fake news or fun fact?
Comment from : @medwayhistory3101

Thinking of dropping out of college
Comment from : @crimsonpython5614

part time construction work !!!!!!brproject oriented brskid mark rowe lies !!!!!!brtoo many worker make low wages !!!!
Comment from : @abcdef-kx2qt

Whats in demand changes with the tides, do what you love You could invest 20 years into something, buy the tooling get the skills and the VERY minute that skill is NOT in demand your laid off the end You better enjoy what you are investing your LIFE into
Comment from : @ronpearson1912

The curriculum of today's schools is learning against learning See all the useless courses and none jobs that they provide
Comment from : @lansnico1

At 17 i started in the printing industry It gave me a good living 38 years In 1976 i made $1375 per hour Just starting That was good money In the end i was over $75,00000 per year I worked my way up Retired at 55 These kids today will not work They want everything handed to them I learned a trade Raised a family Did well
Comment from : @peternorthrup6274

Mark Twain? Will Rogers?
Comment from : @davidchisenhall5001

In two weeks I’m starting my plumbers apprenticeship at the age of 31 After trying college 3 times and giving retail, banking, and call centers a try along with my mother saying to get a bachelors degree getting a ton of student loansbrbrI said enough is enough, called a local plumber and he needed a apprentice Met him fit the profile of wanting to learn and I have no experience brbrShould have done this earlier but better than never I know I’m staring from the bottom but I want to work my way up Tired of being hired at all these places and working for peanuts Looking forward to my plumbing career
Comment from : @SoloFan87

Its worth it because, while your working at the bottom, when the time comes and an opportunity to move up in company arrives,you'll have that degree in your back pocket😎
Comment from : @brandonstephens8133

IF AN APPLICANT HAS NOT PASSED ALGEBRA 2 - AND BASIC DRAFTING THEY ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE TO THE TRADES !!brTHESE ARE THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS !br THIS IS WAY BEFORE SETTING FOOT INTO A SHOP !br SELF STUDY OR REGULAR SCHOOL CLASSES !
Comment from : @abcdef-kx2qt

Funny thing is that I am less than a year shy of 40 and my soon to be 18yr old daughter wants to become an auto mechanic and she is a lesbian but she is skipping the what she calls the useless path of (for her being a lesbian and basically required to hate men) gender studies and the likes for a fruitful paying career in an industry that is never going to die Everyone or nearly everyone that owns an automobile eventually has to take it to be repaired Same for plumbing, everyone has to sh*t, same for carpentry and electricians, everyone needs a home and lights
Comment from : @dickthedorkwing6082

Mike Rowe is a very wise man
Comment from : @patdonnelly9392

Learn a valuable trade and be punctual, motivated, flexible, hard-working, and in possession of a positive attitude at all times Mystery of life over!
Comment from : @fingerbang666

I know doctors still paying off student loans and I recently met an A/C dude who owns 50 ft of lakefront with a 4000 sq ft home on it Vocational training is the way to go for so many people I find the more people make anyway the more they spend I know tons of folks with college degrees who worry how they'll send their kids because they spent it
Comment from : @mandysimmons2769

Ivanka is an "elite", you fucking poindexter! And, Mike Rowe doesn't know dick about economics
Comment from : @FourDollaRacing

College was the worst move I ever made!brbrElectronics engineers are unneeded in a market of throw away devices It costs more to have me fix your busted phone screen than it does just to buy a new phone!!
Comment from : @babygirl8181980411

I have a useless 4 year degree I got a few certifications that took me 9 months to earn them all The degree has been literally worthless; can't get a job with it at all The certs? Total cost $1200 and my current salary is $90k/yr
Comment from : @okami4683

Become a Railroader you'll make 100k a year and all you need is a HS diploma, no skill needed
Comment from : @clough211

Wallace WimmerbrMike Rowe should be Trumps spokesperson/JOBS ZAR the largest industries oil & gas Construction are SCREAMING for women & men that have developmental skills I'm 53 make low 6 figures every year with excellent benefits and only brought the right "ATTITUDE" and (2) hard working hands to the job site Ole dogs can learn new tricks Sweat drips off my chin but stackin cake 👍💰🎉
Comment from : @wallacewimmer5191

I've just realized that I like Mike Rowe Good Vids!
Comment from : @DigESource

I believe our biggest problem is in the cost, time, and energy for the training of a student in a new skill Our education system is excessively expensive and cumbersome and is destroying loyalty in it through the inhibition of motivation due to the expense and ridiculous difficulty
Comment from : @DigESource

🇨🇦 skilled artisan craft technology instructors needed? Maybe
Comment from : @dougspurell2387

Fact is there’s too many people competing for the same jobs cause there just isn’t enough to go around Wages are a joke also Companies don’t even train anymore For me college wasnt worth it and I regret it every single day I didn’t learn anything Luckily I changed career and learned a skilled trade
Comment from : @DevinsDen

punctuality is not a skill setmaga
Comment from : @neuymarc

1 Thessalonians 4:11 “make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands”brbrWorking with your hands demonstrates love for others because a self-supporting person is not a burden to others This verse dignifies manual labor, and suggests that many in the early Christian church came out of the working class The Greeks (elitists) at the time despised manual labor and relegated it to slaves as much as possible But the Jews held it in high esteem; so much so that every Jewish boy was taught a trade regardless of his family’s wealth And just as God gave Adam the gift of work as a gardener even before sin entered the world (Genesis 2:15), He has made it clear in the rest of Scripture that work is a blessing from Him, and working with your hands should never be despised by anyone, especially those who follow Christ A man who is willing to work with his hands demonstrates his love for others by being willing to humble himself to provide for his own needs so that he does not depend on others brbrIf a man can work and chooses not to work due to slothfulness, entitlement, or playing the victim, the Bible says he has no right to eat (2 Thessalonians 3:10), while Immature, basement dwelling adult male children are called “sluggards” in Scripture, and they always make ridiculous excuses for not going out of the house and want to stay safe and lazy at home by saying things like Proverbs 22:13 “There is a lion outside; I will be killed in the streets!” Men, be men, learn a skill, follow Jesus Christ, and work with your hands
Comment from : @SavedSealedByGrace

Jesus, hands-on is so much more fun!
Comment from : @clecollins2673

The guy I did my time under went to Eton and he said 20 years ago that there will come a day when tradesmen will make as much as doctors , which happens here in Australia nowadays
Comment from : @ssuthy1

People don't realize how much you can make in the skilled trades Its going to take some time, 5 years minimum, but if your good 100k a year is definitely attainable Just be prepared to work, it isn't a pussy office job
Comment from : @purplepeopleeater9140

MY HUSBAND IS AN ELECTRICIAN AND A BOAT MECHANIC! AS A ELECTRICIAN HE MADE $5500 per hour AND, A S A BOAT MECHANIC (MARINE ENGINES), HE MADE $6500 per hour!! NOW, WE HAVE A WONDERFUL RETIREMENT AND OWE NO ONE! WHOEVER SAYS YOU HAVE TO GO TO COLLEGE TO MAKE A GREAT LIVINGHAS LOST THEIR MINDS!!!! YES, YOU GET YOUR HANDS DIRTYBUT, YOU CAN EASILY CLEAN THEM!!!! ANDNO STUDENT LOANS TO REPAY!!!!
Comment from : @tigersteele9552

Government says skilled worker is needmy question is ,for how longa few months at a time does not cut itThat is the problemI am a trades person but gave it upAll trades are not treated the same like electricians vs welder fabricators Electricians have it gravy getting their red seal while welders can't keep their jobs long enough to qualify and no sponsors
Comment from : @nguyenvanhiepmarcus

The jobs that physically build and maintain our way of life should have more respect I work with my hands and get to work outside I could not imagine being bored to death, working in a cubical pushing a pencil all day What a boring life
Comment from : @Aubatron

No, it isn't "Education" is now another 1 debt con and you are the teat from which the sweet milk of undischarageable debt flows Haha
Comment from : @BunneRabb

A lot of people are too stupid to do construction, etc--sorry to say The only thing they can do is something mindless
Comment from : @flyboy712

my cs degree was about 22k a quarter for 6 quarters so 132k for tuition and fees total and i went to community college for my GE but i spent like 4 years there goofing around that was like up to $600 a semester so i think total ut could be 18ish K round it up to 20k, if you go to cc for 3 years and university for 2, for a degree in Computer science seems worth it
Comment from : @pspsora

I took a look at the pledge and I honestly can't sign it because one of the tenants is that I do not accept debt and I have accepted debt in the past
Comment from : @SilvrSavior

The Mexicans are the best concrete workers
Comment from : @bobbyburns9829

My father and his brothers were trade school trained mechanics I was taught to turn wrenches from the time I could hold tools I went to vocational school and learned paint and body/ collision repair That skill set enabled me to go to work in the automotive manufacturing industry Having a great job with benefits enabled me, later on, to go to college and get my degree in engineering With my degree, I was able go into the engineering side of automotive manufacturing Better position, better pay With that, I was able to put all of my kids through college without them having to be weighted down with thousands of dollars in student loans to repay Now they all have good jobs and wonderful children of their own All of this started with a blue collar trade learned while still in high school
Comment from : @johnnelson8956

Trade or vocational schools are one the greatest institutions ever created Sadly, many school systems have eliminated these schools from the curriculum The manufacturing base is what propelled this country to economic dominance in the 19th and early to middle 20th centuries Blue collar workers are the backbone in which this country was built We are bleeding jobs to countries like China and India And with that goes quality of life We must get that back Business schools teach that the most prosperous companies are ones that are diverse We must apply that to ourselves Learn a skill or trade My father always preached that if I learned a trade, I would always have something to fall back on He was right
Comment from : @johnnelson8956

I decided to become a heavy equipment operator for a logging company, operating state of the art machines that are slowly starting to catch on in the US I get a company truck to drive, with tools and fuel cards and provided lodging when more than 2 hours from home I am also paid to learn the skills that it takes to operate the machines, which can take a year or more to become proficient, and I make around 65 first year I have heard the average income in our outfit is around 80, but there are a few that have been here forever and are easily making six figures Our company uses machines that ensure everybody is off the ground and it is actually very easy for somebody who is young with decent computer skills and good hand-eye-coordination to become good at All you really need is a clean driving record and can pass a drug test Our days are usually 10-12 hours The average logger is in his mid 50's and very few young people such as myself are getting into it and people like my boss are desperate to find young people who are willing to work Logging is no joke You are basically signing up to do things the hard way Seriously though, for somebody just out of high school, this is an excellent way to get some money stored away or saved up for something in a hurry If you're smart, the rainy days are't a big deal
Comment from : @killstrees

People wanted to go to trade schools--they were always told they had to have 5 years experience to get a job---nobody wants to talk about that!!!
Comment from : @geneford2793

Maybe we need to start talking about wadges and you will find out that most of the jobs in trades pay better than most of the jobs young kids take right out of college
Comment from : @racerd3801

Part of getting rid of that stigma is tackling that early Like FIRST Robotics, an organization doing things like FRC
Comment from : @jeffwillsea6757

The short answer: NO
Comment from : @NSGLiv

Working with your hands, and maybe outside, can get you great money
Comment from : @GULF-BANK

Actually some of the skilled trades especially heating and cooling, you need to be really smart in many areas such as physics, science, and chemistry, electricity and so on So not only are you doing physical labor, youre really using your brain
Comment from : @Jim89240

After college, I'm selling out and becoming a lobbyist Fuck hard labor Can't wait to cut workers pension and healthcare SS too Let do it Trump!
Comment from : @theo4183

I decided to start looking for a job as an apprentice carpenter My mom basically said that kind of work is for losers and its beneath me But the truth is, we're beneath a roof right now And that's because of workers
Comment from : @rawbagle

Mike Rowe is great
Comment from : @ahole6531

I'm a High School Graduate and did 10 years in the Air Force Now I'm an Aircraft Mechanic making over a 100k a year
Comment from : @adashiell1

we should sue the colleges and not pay back a dime
Comment from : @marcusb5168

Used to be called common sense Stay out of debt Debt for diploma is a total scam
Comment from : @buddydyer7836

Mike Rowe is a good man Plenty of good jobs out there that Millennials are to lazy, arrogant and snobby to do
Comment from : @d8d810

I sure am glad that my heart surgeon thought it was
Comment from : @rapidrrobert4333

Africans are bussed in to my area to work in the truck farming industry Mexicans Indians also work here in this industry I doubt if you could find many local people (especially kids) who would do the work
Comment from : @quercusrubra777