The Tribulations of Mike Rowe
Ladies & Gentlemen: Mr. Mike Rowe—possibly the most generous, humble and down-to-Earth guy in media. Tweet
Highlights
Think of a stinky, dirty, dangerous job, and Mike Rowe’s done it...
When he’s not working, Rowe runs a foundation that helps regular guys find regular jobs.
Mike Rowe’s also a reformed opera singer...
Mike Rowe is every man’s favorite everyman—the stand-up hero of Dirty Jobs who will crawl under a friend’s house to clear a drainage line or clogged sewer. Think of a stinky, dirty, dangerous job, and Rowe’s done it—not counting dating your first wife.
Rowe has “traveled to all 50 states and completed 300 different jobs, transforming cable television into a landscape of swamps, sewers, ice roads, coal mines, oil derricks, crab boats, hillbillies, and lumberjack camps,” according to The Association of Financial Professionals. (Who would know more about dirty jobs than those guys?)
When he’s not working, Rowe runs a foundation that helps regular guys find regular jobs. He’s also a reformed opera singer—of course—so if he sees a group of guys standing around with a song on their lips, he’ll even pitch in and get right to work:
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