Published on Dec 13, 2013 If we are lending money that ostensibly we dont have to kids who have no hope of making it back in order to train them for jobs that clearly dont exist, I might suggest that weve gone around the bend a little bit, says TV personality Mike Rowe, best known as the longtime host of Discovery Channels Dirty Jobs. There is a real disconnect in the way that we educate vis-a-vis the opportunities that are available. You have - right now - about 3 million jobs that cant be filled, he says, talking about openings in traditional trades ranging from construction to welding to plumbing. Jobs that typically parents dont sit down with their kids and say, Look, if all goes well, this is what you are going to do. Rowe, who once sang for the Baltimore Opera and worked as an on-air pitchman for QVC, worries that traditional K-12 education demonizes blue-collar fields that pay well and are begging for workers while insisting that everyone get a college degree. He stesses that hes got nothing against college but believes its a huge mistake to push everyone in the same direction regardless of interest or ability. Between Mike Rowe Foundation and Profoundly Disconnected, a venture between Rowe and the heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar, Rowe is hoping both to help people find new careers and publicize what he calls the diploma dilemma. https://youtube/watch?v=qzKzu86Agg0
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