I believe if they’re actually embalming the bodies they need a license, but for everything else they can do with no qualifications.
Mortician is actually an absurd and underpaid job. It barely pays like $20 an hour and you have to haul rotting corpses out of apartments, consolingly small talk with the loved ones of the deceased, do salesmanship to sell caskets and services, embalm the bodies. None of these roles have any overlap in skills needed, it’s all over the place and extremely traumatic for most people and pays like dogshit
But not the upselling for the premium model using the better hardwoods with the titanium handles with the finer interior details including mini-bar and gold inlay.
When my uncle was cremated I was involved in casket selection. He was always pragmatic and wouldn’t have wanted to spend anything on it if possible (he’s already dead after all) so we went with the cheapest option which was a cardboard box. It was still $100 and the rep definitely tried to push one of the significantly more expensive options.
Nah had a friend who worked as a mortician and even had the license to embalm and was paid $22/hour. He had a mental breakdown from the stress and trauma and was fired
I’m not sure what my official title was but I worked at a funeral home during college. My main task was “house calls” where I’d get called at all hours of the night to pick up a dead person from wherever they dropped at and bring them to the funeral home. It was primarily elderly people or those on hospice care, pretty much anything the first responders didn’t think warranted further investigation. It paid $90 a call for an hour or two of easy work so it was a pretty decent alternative to flipping burgers or retail. I also got paid $14 or so an hour to assist with funerals or picking people up from hospitals, didn’t care for that part as much. This was a very small town almost 10 years ago so the pay was quite good by my standards at least, I think minimum wage was $7.50 at the time.
Pretty decent gig overall, I’d honestly recommend it over everything else I did before graduating. I didn’t mind the dead people at all, it was dealing with the living I struggled with
I believe if they’re actually embalming the bodies they need a license, but for everything else they can do with no qualifications.
Mortician is actually an absurd and underpaid job. It barely pays like $20 an hour and you have to haul rotting corpses out of apartments, consolingly small talk with the loved ones of the deceased, do salesmanship to sell caskets and services, embalm the bodies. None of these roles have any overlap in skills needed, it’s all over the place and extremely traumatic for most people and pays like dogshit
I would imagine the caskets kinda sell themselves though
But not the upselling for the premium model using the better hardwoods with the titanium handles with the finer interior details including mini-bar and gold inlay.
Don’t forget fake airtight.
Shit I would love a minibar in my casket. Gotta reward the graverobbers
When my uncle was cremated I was involved in casket selection. He was always pragmatic and wouldn’t have wanted to spend anything on it if possible (he’s already dead after all) so we went with the cheapest option which was a cardboard box. It was still $100 and the rep definitely tried to push one of the significantly more expensive options.
I always assumed the funeral industry paid better given
how much of a scamprofitable it is, and due to the nature of the work.Nah had a friend who worked as a mortician and even had the license to embalm and was paid $22/hour. He had a mental breakdown from the stress and trauma and was fired
The administrators on the other hand…
Around here their vehicles are a lime green corvette with a vanity plate LAST2SEEU
And a modern high end SUV with vanity plate RIPT1NA
I’m not sure what my official title was but I worked at a funeral home during college. My main task was “house calls” where I’d get called at all hours of the night to pick up a dead person from wherever they dropped at and bring them to the funeral home. It was primarily elderly people or those on hospice care, pretty much anything the first responders didn’t think warranted further investigation. It paid $90 a call for an hour or two of easy work so it was a pretty decent alternative to flipping burgers or retail. I also got paid $14 or so an hour to assist with funerals or picking people up from hospitals, didn’t care for that part as much. This was a very small town almost 10 years ago so the pay was quite good by my standards at least, I think minimum wage was $7.50 at the time.
Pretty decent gig overall, I’d honestly recommend it over everything else I did before graduating. I didn’t mind the dead people at all, it was dealing with the living I struggled with