My Dirty Life As A Snake Oil Salesman

Well, Mike Rowe started a site called mikeroweWORKS and decided that he needed a way to fund it.  mikeroweWorks is Mike's way of supporting the trades and a resource for anyone that wants an occupation in the trades.   Yesterday, I was reading the internet and noticed that Sears and Mike Rowe were getting ready to promote a new line of clothing that advertises Dirty Jobs, Mike Rowe and MRWs.  I did a little digging on the site and realized that all of the items were IMPORTS!  So far, Mike has teamed up with Fenton Glass to produce glass items to be sold for his site.  This is fine because it means Fenton will have a way to keep more tradesmen employed and produce quality glass products to support MRWs.  It was a win-win for both and it was positive for promoting the trades.

But selling imports should not happen and gives the wrong message.  The message that we need to sell something that is not made by our trades.  Well, I can understand the complexity of trying to fund a website and Mike's Foundation but was Mike a snake oil salesman in another life?  So far, it looks like he is and he thinks people will fall for it but people are not dumb.  I wonder how long it will take for his fans to tar and feather him and send him packing?

I think Mike is the perfect salesman and QVC was the thing that started the ball rolling.  Mike made QVC $$$ for three hours at night selling fake diamonds.   He even sold dolls better than Marie Osmond. Maybe he could teach P. T. Barnum a few tricks of his trade?  Yes, Mike is a master showman and that is why he is devoted to the medium of TV and the false illusion it presents.  In real life, I'm sure its all about the money and how to create another succor.  It's unfortunate he is trying his snake oil on hard working people in the trades and trying to sell them what will kill off their trade.

In on the Joke: Mike Rowe discovers that work is failure

Mike gave a talk to the EG Group and discussed how he changed his views on work based on anaganorisis and peripeteia.  I say he changed how he looks on failure due to anaganorisis and peripeteia.

This is how I see it:  we all are born with a purpose and yet we can never figure out what we want to do in life.  We start out from high school hoping to try out what we wanted, only to find out later on in the future we went another path and what we wanted in the first place was failure.  Life itself is looked at as an open road that winds and leads us in a direction.  We never know what will be in store for us over that next crest in the road but that is how we find ourselves.  Work is a part of this road.  Finding out what is our identity is anaganorisis.  Most kids out of high school really don't have an identity or know their strenths when they are young.  It is only through the self recognition of the self that we experience the peripetitia or learn and this is though failure.

Mike may not have realized this but we all are set up to fail at something in life and usually it is the thing we avoid most in life.  I personally hated any business classes when in college and now I am the most business minded person I know.  I think I woke up and realized I was more intuitive about work than I knew.  Maybe Mike is intuitive like me. We fear what we don't know or understand, so we try to take another path because we do not like to fail.  We know that we do not like something about work and trey to avoid it and we fail, thus it is one of the most important things about the work that surrounds us.  If I could just click ruby slippers like Dorothy to make me realize that the thing I wanted to run away from is the most important (Dorothy ran away from home and found in the end there was 'no place like home.')  Mike has been avoiding work all along and now it is all he does and all that matters.