Dirty Jobs Star Mike Rowe: Want To Make Six Figures? Become A Plumber

Skilled laborers are in high demand.

- Kristen Bahler

MIKE ROWE WANTS YOU to picture something. So envision, if you will, a skilled tradesperson. A construction worker, maybe. Or the guy who comes to fix your dishwasher when it’s leaking dirty water and stinking to high heaven.

What does he look like, this blue-collar worker you’ve fabricated? Is he smart and capable? Or hapless, and kind of simpleminded, like an extra in a sitcom?

“If you see a plumber on TV, he’s going to be 300 pounds with a giant butt crack,” Rowe says.