Dirty Jobs help find meaning and contentment

Spending time on ted.com is a revealation.

When I wrote in one of my earlier blogs about the notion of being employed being misunderstood and misrepresented, I didnt realise that I would stumble upon this interesting and insightful video - www.ted.com/index.php/talks/mike_rowe_celebrates_dirty_jobs.html

Mike Rowe gives a fitting tribute to people out there who find happiness in the so called 'menial tasks/dirty jobs'. Being in the knowledge economy makes no sense if we do not embrace and encourage people to follow their calling and allow people an opportunity to decide to take jobs that help them find fulfillment irrespective of the notional significance of their job.

I believe that there are many lessons that go unlearnt in our single minded pursuit of jobs that we classify as 'hep and happening'. In our pursuit, we fail to realise that the jobs that we are blindly pursuing depend on other jobs which make us happen. More and more people want to replicate someone else's success in a specific career not realising that the definitions of skilled/unskilled/superskilled labor is becoming a blur.

My only prayer to people like Mike Rowe and many others like him is to help increase awareness amongst the rest of us so that it will help create a movement of realisation, gratitude and humility.