Dirty Jobs

I think we all have heard of Mike Rowe and Discovery channel show Dirty Jobs by now but if you haven't then you just have now. Mike explores the jobs that need to be done but that the majority of us don't like to think about. Things like leather tanning and steal mill working. This show is by no means new; it's been around since 2005 but we just never seem to get tired of seeing Mike get a little grungy. The show defiantly wouldn't be the same without his sarcastic comments and his occasional screw ups. I give him credit though, he tries everything he's given.

What I wanted to talk about though is how the show shows us the parts of living in a society that we don't want to think about (waste management for example) but have to be done non the less. This show does a really good job of bringing these things to light (I've certainly learned about a lot of jobs I never even knew existed). I think we need to see more of this type of thing; the dirty side of society that we all conveniently forget about. We like to forget because we don't consider it glamorous, at least that's my opinion of why. Getting muddy and such isn't honestly my idea of a job anyways but for many it is, as Dirty Jobs have shown us. In some ways it might even be better to have a job like the ones on Dirty Jobs since many actually directly keep society functioning and help people.