{"id":6857,"date":"2021-08-10T11:31:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T16:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webfxonline.com\/?p=6857"},"modified":"2021-08-10T11:31:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T16:31:47","slug":"more-than-10m-americans-are-unemployed-is-it-time-to-get-dirty-when-it-comes-to-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webfxonline.com\/?p=6857","title":{"rendered":"More than 10M Americans are unemployed. Is it time to get &#8216;dirty&#8217; when it comes to jobs?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1280\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 720 \/ 1280;\" width=\"720\" autoplay controls poster=\"https:\/\/www.webfxonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/rowe.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webfxonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/10000000_126535872805541_6464112002664723570_n.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON (SBG) &#8211; One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, and the current\u00a0unemployment\u00a0rate is still over 6%, a number that doesn\u2019t include the millions who gave up looking for a job and dropped out of the workforce altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike Rowe has had plenty of jobs \u2014 many of them dirty. As the former host of the Discovery Channel\u2019s show Dirty Jobs, Rowe has a unique perspective on the pandemic\u2019s effect on blue-collar workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou can walk down any street in any town in this country and find neighbors who are wildly disparate in their experience and in their circumstance,\u201d said Rowe to The National Desk\u2019s Jan Jeffcoat. \u201cI can&#8217;t speak on behalf of all blue-collar workers, but I can say that essential work has never been in the headlines like it is today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the nation focuses on prioritizing\u00a0vaccinations\u00a0for essential workers and those at higher risk, Rowe says there are unintended consequences of labeling the workforce as essential and non-essential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat you do when you focus on essentiality is you also labeled 40-50 million other people as nonessential,\u201d said Rowe. \u201cWhat happens when you call 40 million people, non-essential? What happens when you prohibit those people from making a living? Well, nothing good.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rowe says one of the big lessons he\u2019s learned throughout the pandemic is that \u201cthere is no such thing\u201d as a non-essential worker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEverybody&#8217;s\u00a0essential\u00a0to somebody, even if it&#8217;s just themselves or their spouse or their family,\u201d said Rowe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One question Rowe still gets from his time hosting Dirty Jobs: Why was everybody on your show having so much fun?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat do these dirty jobbers, as a group, know that the rest of us have forgotten?\u201d said Rowe. \u201cThey understand the importance and the value of feedback because they get it all the time. You\u2019ve got all these visual cues regarding your progress, and people are starving for that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also credits a \u201cband of brothers\u201d mentality and job security for why so many people in the jobs he highlighted on his show were \u201cmore engaged and more balanced.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With COVID cases on the decline and the majority of Americans now expected to be able to access the vaccine by the end of May, many are hoping we are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel in regards to the coronavirus pandemic. But what might that mean for the job market, as some businesses reopen, and others remain shuttered permanently?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve been arguing for the last 13 years that people who have a skill that&#8217;s in demand, and who are willing to go to where the work is, have unbelievable opportunities. 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