[ATannahill]

I think your reference to Dirty Jobs is right, as Mike Rowe says "Hard-working men and women who earn an honest living doing the kinds of jobs that make civilized life possible for the rest of us."

We need the manual workers, but, for the majority, Dean was right. He said we don't want to grow up to break our backs in a dead end job (paraphrasing). I am right now at a CNC milling competition, but I would leave now if it pigeon holed me it doing for the rest of my life. I have aspirations of becoming a big-shot engineer where the manual labor is light. Will it happen? I hope so, check in in ten years. Whether it does or not, I hope that I'm not stuck in the do this same thing 5 thousand times a day industry.