“I just saw these jeans at Nordstrom for some $400 with fake
mud on them. That doesn’t make sense to people who’ve actually worked in the
dirt. Look – I wear jeans. I like jeans. Some of my jeans actually have holes
in them. Those holes happened as a result of wearing the jeans and doing some
work. It’s like a scar. You get a scar, you get a story. There’s this sort of
parallel between an overpriced pair of fake muddy jeans with an overpriced
diploma from an institution that was happy to take borrowed money but not so
happy to give you skills that would make you hirable. As much fun as it would
be to go back in time with a pair of $400 fake muddy jeans from Nordstrom and
show them to the guys on Dirty Jobs, I realize it would be a terrible thing to
do because their heads would explode.” – Mike Rowe
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