Mike Rowe is amazing.

He's a very cool man.

Though a college graduate, I frequently recommend that kids avoid college and learn trades that are not just useful, but impossible to outsource to New Delhi.

Unless you're going to study engineering, accounting, nursing, and a handful of other majors, college isn't likely to help you find a job.

Open the help-wanted section of any paper and see if anyone's trying to hire a philosopher or someone to analyze eastern European literature, and you'll appreciate the value of those majors in the real world.

I'm gay for Mike Rowe.

I applaud Mike for finally publicizing something I've noticed for a few years now. Professional skills that can't be "outsourced" are the key to financial independence, not just for individuals but for society in general. It doesn't matter how many natural resources, attractions, or widget factories you have or don't have. If everyone in a group of people have a necessary skill that everyone needs, then everyone has a job in demand.Of course these jobs not only include manual labor,and high skilled industrial labor, but even needed white collar positions such in medical and teaching.