Miss Maudie tells Jem that he is too young to understand what she means when she says ‘some men in this world are born to do our unpleasent jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.’ Miss Maudie is trying to explain that you need people to do everyday jobs in order for the world to work. Miss Maudie wants Jem to understand that there are people who have to do jobs they don’t want to, but have to because someone has to do them.