The First Four Years Are The Hardest… [open letter to Mitt Romney]

mikeroweworks.com ^ | September 3, 2012 | Mike Rowe (host of "Dirty Jobs" on the Discovery channel)

[Terry Mross]

During the Carter years I took a temporary job at a plant that did “grease extraction”. I had no idea what that meant. They cooked rotten chicken heads, guts, feet and feathers and turned it into a protein powder.

At age 14 I worked 7 days a week at a swimming pool cleaning and handing out baskets all for $5 a week (all the pretty girls in bikinis were a fringe benefit). I also sacked groceries, fixed flats, pumped gas, washed cars, cleared brush, mowed lawns and one summer I worked in hot attics as an electrician’s gofer....got paid $5 a day working from 7 to 6. If I got Saturday afternoon off I was docked $2.50. The only one that paid minimum wage was sacking groceries. Too many kids, and adults, today don’t want to work.

[Pietro]

"Have young people today lost the ability and desire to take the sometimes unpleasant entry level jobs"

Certainly!

As you know, hard work ain't easy.

[SE Mom]

I am SO glad you posted this piece- I think Rowe is one terrific fellow. Plus- he does ads for the auto company that didn’t ask for a taxpayer bailout!

Reflecting on Mike Rowe reminds me that the America I knew...was FULL OF MEN LIKE HIM. Chock full- everywhere- they weren’t the exception- they were the rule.

As a gal..I know there are plenty more like me who think- he’s my kind of guy:)

[cripplecreek]

If Romney really wants to turn his campaign around and convince people to want to vote for him, he needs to heed Mike Rowe and prove he means it.

A thread from a few years back when Rowe was calling on Obama to pay attention.

Mike Rowe on Discovery, Realization and Lamb Castration

[cripplecreek]

See the link in the post after yours. Mike Rowe lives what he’s saying and was saying it last year too.

[grundle]

I saw that when it first aired. I was surprised they showed it.