The thing I love about Mike Rowe is that he's been to hundreds of 'dirty' jobs and has come out with a converse theory on nearly everything we've been told to believe.

We're told we should work as little as possible in a job thats as physically undemanding as possible and believe we should be paid more for it.

The best days work for me was when I had to knock down a wall. I had a 10 lb sledge hammer, a wall I'd wrongly presumed to be cinder block, but was in fact reinforced concrete blocks they used for bomb shelters in WW2. It took me about 6 hours to finally get the wall down and that night I slept like a baby and for like 3 days I don't think it was even physically possible to get annoyed.

I don't know why, but when I work with my hands I always seem to be in a much happier mood, and I think it helps that demolition is just downright stress relieving. IIRC there's a demolition company in the UK where you can pay them to let you rip down a part of an apartment or office building before they tear it down. Apparently they made a lot of money with the idea.