You Can Make $150,000 Per Year Welding With an $8,000 Certificate: Mike Rowe

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This is the 30 minute TV version of Jan Jekielek’s interview with Mike Rowe. The longer-form version was released on Epoch TV on March 8, 2025.

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President Donald Trump has promised that he will bring back American manufacturing during his presidency. What if there aren’t enough Americans who want to work those jobs?
“Every year for the last decade or so, for every five tradesmen who retire, two replace them,” says Mike Rowe, Emmy Award-winning TV host of the Dirty Jobs series.

“If we don’t have a workforce who is disabused of the stigmas and the stereotypes and the myths and the misperceptions that have kept millions of kids from giving these jobs an honest look … you’re going to wind up in a pretty nasty feedback loop,” he says.

“People still don’t believe me. Even when I show them, not just the stats, but the actual humans who are making $150-grand a year welding with an $8,000 certificate, they just don’t believe it,” he says.

Rowe is the founder of mikeroweWORKS Foundation, which awards millions of dollars in work ethic scholarships for young people to learn a skilled trade.

CHAPTER TITLES
0:00:01 – The Skilled Labor Crisis: Workforce Challenges in American Manufacturing
0:01:00 – Introducing Mike Rowe: Advocating for Skilled Trades
0:04:44 – The Changing Landscape of Work: AI, Coding, and Trade Jobs
0:11:04 – The Troubling Trend of Unemployed and Disengaged Men
0:13:26 – Mike Rowe Works Foundation: Scholarships and Work Ethic
0:19:05 – Societal Appreciation and the Future of Skilled Labor

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