Here's The Insightful Career Lesson Mike Rowe Learned From Cleaning The Inside Of A Septic Tank On 'Dirty Jobs'

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Mike Rowe, best known for being the host of the show "Dirty Jobs," took part in the New York Comic Con panel "How to make friends and influence people: Talent and production company relationships in the new media landscape" over the weekend, and he dropped a couple of real nuggets of wisdom that just aspiring professional can apply to their career.

Rowe should know considering he sampled 300 jobs in over eight seasons on "Dirty Jobs," gave a Ted Talk in 2011 on the value of work, and started the Mike Rowe Works Foundation.

He's also milked camels.

Rowe said that one of the biggest lessons from "Dirty Jobs" was when he first heard of the notion of taking the "reverse commute" - to go in a career path in the opposite direction from the one you're currently on - from a septic tank technician in Wisconsin named Les Swanson who was formerly a psychiatrist.

Rowe explained how somebody could go from a psychiatrist to a crap cleaner:

In other words, the job doesn't define who you are or how happy you are, it is about the passion you bring to your work and how you choose to live your life, whether you're a website designer or a septic tank technician. There's no reason why you can't reverse direction and find satisfaction.

Rowe also helped field a question from the audience about how to end professional relationships without burning bridges when you realize it isn't working out:

This goes for any profession, not just production. You have no way of knowing if that eager intern you had last summer could one day end up in a position of power with the ability to hire, or fire, you.