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Source: Featured photo credit: How To Set Up Your Desk For Your Best Day At Work via huffingtonpost.com

Related Lifehacker.com post – How to Set up Your Desk to Increase Productivity at Work

If the work worth doing isn’t fast, easy or guaranteed then we shouldn’t be surprised by the time, effort and risk involved in striving for the best.

Mike Rowe argues:

“We are lending money we don’t have to kids who can’t pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. That’s nuts.”

The other gem that Rowe offered in this interview was the realization that the worst advice he ever got was from his high school councillor who pointed to the poster on the left and asked Mike who he would rather be. In response Mike has developed and is selling the following poster which proceeds to to the mikeroweWORKS Foundation, which pays for trade school scholarships.

worksmart vs workhard

You can purchase a copy of the new poster from Mike’s site Profoundly Disconnected

work smart and hard

Governor Huckabee Interview of Mike Rowe
Mike Rowe’s Profoundly Disconnected site

Classic example of making your passion your profession.