Author: Shari

PEOPLE MAGAZINE AND THE PASSING OF MRS. P

Shari

Back in Community College, I had a journalism teacher named Paula Pumphrey. We called her Mrs. P, and she was fantastic. Once, I turned in a feature story that I felt was maybe the best thing I’d ever written. In particular, I thought my first sentence really sang… “On a misty morning in Southern Maryland, Mitchell Mycroft made a massive miscalculation – a mathematical mistake that be remembered as a marvelous misstep in modern manufacturing.” Mrs. P circled the entire sentence with a red marker and wrote in the margin, “ALLITERATION ALMOST ALWAYS ANNOYS!!!” She was right of course, and Read More

Equipment World: Mike opens up about opera, skilled trades and Dirty Jobs

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Mike sits down with Equipment World at ConExpo 2014 to talk about his views on the skilled trades and explains “no job is a bad job.” By Wayne Grayson All of the new machines are obviously the star of a show like ConExpo. But one of the highlights for the Equipment World team last week at the show was getting to sit down with TV host and newly-minted author Mike Rowe for a conversation on the importance of skilled trades and vocational education. Just in case you’re unaware, Rowe is likely the foremost advocate for construction and the trades we Read More

MSNBC Morning Joe gets Mike’s take on Walmart backlash

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Mike visits with the crew on Morning Joe to discuss the controversial Walmart ad and his new book Profoundly Disconnected. We also learn a new term “cognitive dissonance” – when someone you’re trained to hate does something you actually agree with and how it takes a minute to get your head around it…for some it has taken longer than a minute. Mike takes the time to make sure the message of bringing jobs and manufacturing to America is not lost in the debate.

There’s No Such Thing as Free Press

Shari

I’m back. Three days of press, five hours of sleep, four bottles of wine, a speech, a job offer, 5,000 form letters, and a couple of good-natured death threats. All because of a commercial that I narrated about American manufacturing paid for by Walmart. Press tours are fun! Oscar Wilde said, “the only thing worse than people talking about you is people not talking about you.” I don’t know that I agree with Oscar, but one thing’s for sure – there’s no such thing as “free press.” I just Googled myself and the results are too rich to ignore. Let’s Read More

Fox News Radio John Gibson – Mike talks about the “terrible arithmetic of the economy”

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Mike gives his thoughts on the Walmart ad controversy and if raising the minimum wage is really the answer. Work is a beautiful thing. Mike Rowe on critics attacking him for narrating a new ad for Walmart says he can’t imagine what would happen in the economy if others followed Walmarts example. On the CBO report that raising the minimum wage will cost at least 500K jobs, Rowe calls it the “Terrible Arithmetic of the Economy” adding: until we close the skills gap we can’t have a conversation on who is worth what in the workplace. PLUS: Mike Rowe discusses Read More

Fox News Radio Tom Sullivan – There are ‘Help Wanted’ signs everywhere

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Mike discusses jobs that go unfilled, the mikeroweWORKS Foundation scholarships and urges people to really consider a job in the skilled trades. Despite the country’s high unemployment rate,“Dirty Jobs” Host Mike Rowe says he sees “Help Wanted” signs everywhere he travels in this country! The problem, Rowe says, is that many Americans lack the necessary skills to fill those jobs or aren’t willing to put in the extra work! On Thursday’s show, Mike Rowe joined Tom to explain why he thinks so many Americans are really out of work and why more vocational training and a better work ethic could Read More

CNN Piers Morgan – Mike sings Opera and talks about being unemployed

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Mike covers a lot of ground during his time with Piers Morgan. He sings, he announces, and he talks about the end of the Dirty Jobs and Ford era. For the first time in his adult life, the man that preaches a good day’s work, is unemployed. “You know, it’s odd,” said Mike Rowe, joining “Piers Morgan Live” Thursday evening. “But I mean seriously it forces you to step back and go, ‘okay. I’ve been really, really lucky – I know that.’” After ten years on Discovery Channel’s “Dirty Jobs” and serving as a commercial spokesman for Ford, Rowe has Read More