A Hard Job

I learned in a sociology class years ago that there are three things that made a job desirable – power, privilege (money), and prestige.  Let me tell you about a really hard job that has none of those: changing tires.  It is a difficult, dirty job.  I don’t think anyone says, “You know, when I grow up, I think I would like to change tires for a living.” The tire changing person is near the bottom or at the bottom of the list of powerful people in a garage.  I can’t imagine that they make much money.  As for prestige, when was the last time you heard of someone being named as the “Tire Changer of the Year”? But when you need a tire changed and/or repaired, they are at the top of your list of important people – and then they fall back into memory oblivion once you drive away from the garage. As Mike Rowe of “Dirty Jobs” says, “People with dirty jobs make civilized life possible for the rest of us.” Thank you so much to the man who repaired my tire at Bee Jay’s Services in Watson Lake, YT.

A slow, weak, fat person could not do this job.