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The Roofing Industry Needs A Publicist

father and son
April 10, 2015 at 12:20 a.m.

I was watching a show called 'The Middle' last night and the lowly neighbor kid said he wanted to work to become something in his life "like a roofer or a landscapers assistant". I first thought 'Hey, cool he wants to be a roofer', then I realized 'Hey, he is comparing a roofer to a guy works a wheelbarrow!' No offense to the wheelbarrow guy (but you are only an assistant) roofing requires skill and a lot of common sense and you have to do it 11 stories up or at a 45 degree angle.

This is just another example of Hollywood's assault on skilled labor, to steal a point from Mike Rowe's Ted talk speech, (GKRFG posted it a few weeks ago).

Why do we portray manual labor as something to be made fun of? How did it come to this? How did the public lose respect for people that like to get their hands dirty for a living? Why aren't roofers feared and respected!

Irritated me. What do you think?

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