apparent lack of desire to find a good job. they are putting their feelings over everything else. jackie ibanez has more on the story. they don t weren t to work hard. former dirty jobs host not holding back voicing his concerns over finding qualified young people in the workforce. he says he is having trouble getting out his scholarships to high schoolers. i am in the midst of doing what i do every year which is try and give away work ethic scholarships. it gets harder every year. gets harder to give away money? make videos & a sweat pledge. what people are often confronted, these hoops through which i ask them to leave, they take umbrage at that and i find it fascinating. they have to work for the.
the work ethic scholarships, either were saying applicants sign a solemn oath not to become a lazy, self entitled drone who blames others for their troubles and expect to be taken care of. not everyone is going to be signing this. that is a loose translation of the sweat pledge, skills and work ethic are not taboo. and it is several things you have to agree to for the scholarship and the fact that we ask people to make an affirmative case for themselves and a few other things, it makes it very difficult to give away half a million dollars which is something we do every year at the foundation. as part of the reason i wanted to come on your show. the money as they are. for people who want to learn a skill or a job that is actually in demand is something that you should know about. we have talked about it before. 5.6 million jobs available right
, yes but it costs extra. tucker: the wheelbarrow app, i recognize that. this is a metaphor you are saying for changing attitudes about work.a i m saying more that the tail can wag the dog we can talk about a lot of different ways but fundamentally, it s kind of interesting and sometimes instructive to look around and find ways that we either subconsciously or consciously declared war on work or at least the traditional notions of work. this is exactly the kind of thing i don t know how far you want to look into it but clearly icons and tokens and metaphors these are powerful things. in a way, i believe it is fair to say we represent and value things in ways that make sense to our brain. we have a rubber ducky. tucker: taxes working at twice the rate of production. the work ethic scholarships,
every national newspaper every day talked about record high unemployment. and everywhere i went on the show, i saw help wanted signs. and so it struck me that there was this other narrative going on in the country. and at the time, 2009, there were 2.3 million available jobs that nobody seemed to want. so i thought it would be a decent legacy for the show to focus on jobs that actually existed that for whatever reason people weren t excited about pursuing try tone courage training for those jobs and reward work ethic where and when i could find it with a scholarship program that dealt in work ethic scholarships. interesting. so what kind of jobs are these? well, it s the typical technical trade construction jobs. right now welding has got to be near the top of the list. the need for welders is shocking. we can t train them fast
every national newspaper every day talked about record high unemployment. and everywhere i went on the show, i saw help wanted signs. and so it struck me that there was this other narrative going on in the country. and at the time, 2009, there were 2.3 million available jobs that nobody seemed to want. so i thought it would be a decent legacy for the show to focus on jobs that actually existed that for whatever reason people weren t excited about pursuing try tone courage training for those jobs and reward work ethic where and when i could find it with a scholarship program that dealt in work ethic scholarships. interesting. so what kind of jobs are these? well, it s the typical technical trade construction jobs. right now welding has got to be near the top of the list. the need for welders is shocking. we can t train them fast