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One of my favorite shows on TV is Dirty Jobs <\/a>with Mike Rowe<\/a>.\u00a0 Even though the keynote speaker was announced ahead of SolidWorks World 2012 (Tony Fadell), there was still a surprize guest speaker!\u00a0 Can you guess who (as if you didn’t already know): Mike Rowe.<\/p>\n

Mike Rowe is a down to Earth kind of guy that has a passion to honor the men and women who do the jobs that the rest of us are thankful we don’t have to do.\u00a0 Rowe spoke about wanting to bring white collar and blue collar trades together.\u00a0 Though there is value in having degrees (of which he has one in Communications), he states that our society is too focused on that.\u00a0 In particular, he does Dirty Jobs to honor his Grandfather, Carl, who was a plummer and mechanic.\u00a0 With all the unemployment, there doesn’t seem to be enough people to fill jobs like plummers and electricians.\u00a0 A very good article covers details of his talk on Graphics Speak<\/a><\/p>\n

He talked about mikeroweWORKS<\/a>, built by the fans of Dirty Jobs,\u00a0which seeks to help close the skills gap and link up tradesmen.\u00a0 His mission statement <\/a>says it better than I ever could.<\/p>\n

Meeting Mike Rowe<\/h4>\n

When travelling across country late last year with my wife<\/a>, I discovered a section of our hotel store at the Grand\u00a0Canyon that was dedicated to Dirty Jobs.\u00a0 There was a foam board cut out of Mike Rowe’s image.\u00a0 To joke with my wife, who never found her way into the store, I took a photo of me with the 2D cut out.<\/p>\n

In a bit of irony, I actually did get a chance to meet Mike Rowe at SolidWorks World 2012, and yes, he gracitiously took his photo with me.\u00a0 Can you tell which is the real Mike Rowe?<\/p>\n

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