A TV Series that Centers Around Work

One television show that is centered around work is the Discovery Channel hit show, Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe. The premise of the show is to show viewers the most demeaning, filthy, and tedious jobs in the United States. Then the host, Mike Rowe, representing the "average" American must try to perform this jobs tasks for a full day. It is often too much to handle for Rowe, thus bringing a sense of appreciation to these primitive and dignity lacking jobs. Every episode opens with the quote, "we search across America to find the people who make civilized life possible for the rest of us". At times the series does follow the occupations of migrant workers(in many instances the labor is cheap). At times these migrant workers are the proprietors of businesses, and other times they are at the lowest tier of the working class pyramid. However, they do not define the show; they are included nonetheless as Americans who work towards the benefit of themselves and the nation. In my opinion Dirty Jobs does an excellent job of shedding light on the people who work the hardest in our country, and how we could not go about our daily lives the same without the hard work that they put in. It is sometimes important to take a sobering glance into an unfamiliar world that may lie right in our backyard.