Mike Rowe started his career as a narrator and host for things like CD-ROM trivia before breaking into the TV game. He picked up some local TV gigs where he started narrating a segment called “Somebody’s Gotta Do It.” It was a popular concept, and Rowe would later turn the idea into the longer form series you may know as Dirty Jobs. While Rowe was proud of the show when it hit the TV schedule, he opened up about how it actually took quite a few years before the show blew up – and for his career to see an uptick in the process.
In a wide-ranging interview, Mike Rowe got candid about the “prophetic” vision he had that led to a career in becoming an expert on the skills gap in the States. He said that he’d seen companies from the seventies on take hands-on work out of schools, creating what he calls a “giant gap in the workforce.” The popular interview host got right to the point about what he saw happening in the U.S. that led to the creation of his hit Discovery show, which began airing in 2003 and later become one of the best shows on Max and other streamers.
