{"id":21372,"date":"2011-06-29T19:15:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T01:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=21372"},"modified":"2011-06-29T19:15:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T01:15:06","slug":"dirty-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/29\/dirty-jobs.html","title":{"rendered":"Dirty Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Rowe is the guy from the Discovery Channel&#8217;s &#8220;Dirty Jobs&#8221; show (a family favorite). \u00a0And there&#8217;s a lot of value in what he says here at TED &#8217;08 about (a) being wrong, and (b) the value (and devaluing) of work.<\/p>\n<p><!--copy and paste--><object width=\"446\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/MikeRowe_2008P-medium.flv&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/MikeRowe-2008P.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=432&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=477&#038;lang=eng&#038;introDuration=15330&#038;adDuration=4000&#038;postAdDuration=830&#038;adKeys=talk=mike_rowe_celebrates_dirty_jobs;year=2008;theme=master_storytellers;theme=not_business_as_usual;theme=media_that_matters;event=EG+2008;tag=Entertainment;tag=economics;tag=work;&#038;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t necessarily agree with everything he says (Safety remains a primary factor in my work life), but I think there&#8217;s a lot of good stuff here. <\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/06\/25\/mike-rowe-on-the-lessons-of-dirty-jobs\/\">Sociological Images<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Rowe is the guy from the Discovery Channel&#8217;s &#8220;Dirty Jobs&#8221; show (a family favorite). \u00a0And there&#8217;s a lot of value in what he says here at TED &#8217;08 about (a) being wrong, and (b) the value (and devaluing) of work. I don&#8217;t necessarily agree with everything he says (Safety remains a primary factor in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/29\/dirty-jobs.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dirty Jobs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job-jollies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":138001,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/28\/finally-a-job-we-can-all-agree-wed-rather-have-done-by-a-robot.html","url_meta":{"origin":21372,"position":0},"title":"Finally, a job we can all agree we&#8217;d rather have done by a robot","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 28-Feb-19 10:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"People often express a lot of concern about how robots are taking human jobs. 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