{"id":1104,"date":"2007-08-01T08:49:21","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T13:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/08\/dirty-jobs-and-common-sense\/"},"modified":"2007-08-01T08:49:56","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T13:49:56","slug":"dirty-jobs-and-common-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/08\/dirty-jobs-and-common-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirty Jobs And Common Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" width=\"116\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/windowslivewriterdirtyjobscommonsense-c5e8broom-and-dustpan3.jpg?resize=116%2C82\" height=\"82\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px 10px 0px\" \/> I&#8217;m a big fan of <em>Dirty Jobs<\/em> on the Discovery Channel and have the Tivo set to record it every week.  If you haven&#8217;t seen it, essentially the host goes around each week and works with people who have a dirty job.  Well, not just dirty, usually disgusting to the nth degree.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m intrigued when I see this CareerJournal.com article &#8211; Putting the Spotlight<br \/>\nOn the Grimiest Gigs.  It&#8217;s a fun read and the host, Mike Rowe, is an interesting guy.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article and you will find this great point (my emphasis):<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wall Street Journal: Why do the workers highlighted on your show often appear happy in their jobs, despite the dirty and smelly environments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Rowe: Essentially it&#8217;s because their lives have balance. They have visual cues to tell them when they&#8217;re done and they get constant feedback throughout the day. If you have a dirty job, you always know how you&#8217;re doing from minute to minute, hour to hour, day to day, and that&#8217;s missing in a lot of big corporate jobs. That&#8217;s important to have in your life.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Over the last few decades, the whole notion of the old Puritan work ethic has really changed. In fact, it&#8217;s come under attack. <strong>The notion of working smart instead of working hard is a platitude that a lot of college graduates have embraced without really thinking about it. It&#8217;s dangerous, because hard work and smart work aren&#8217;t opposites. They&#8217;re two sides of the same coin, and people with dirty jobs know that. A lot of people in corporate America don&#8217;t.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/strong>Great point and I must confess I have used that platitude on many occasions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of Dirty Jobs on the Discovery Channel and have the Tivo set to record it every week. If you haven&#8217;t seen it, essentially the host goes around each week and works with people who have a dirty job. Well, not just dirty, usually disgusting to the nth degree. So I&#8217;m intrigued when I see this CareerJournal.com article &#8211; Putting the Spotlight On the Grimiest Gigs. It&#8217;s a fun read and the host, Mike Rowe, is an interesting guy. Read the article and you will find this great point (my emphasis): Wall Street Journal: Why do the workers highlighted on your show often appear happy in their&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/08\/dirty-jobs-and-common-sense\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-team-management","category-worklife-balance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-hO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1298,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/11\/dirty-jobs-compensation\/","url_meta":{"origin":1104,"position":0},"title":"Dirty Jobs Compensation","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"November 19, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"It is a week to be thankful for many things - especially if you don't have a \"Dirty Job.\"\u00a0 No, not that type of dirty.\u00a0 Dirty as in the Mike Rowe series on Discovery Channel.\u00a0 MSN.com has a story today titled They\u2019re Dirty Jobs, But They Gotta Get Done. 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