Got my CS degree a couple of years ago. Worked in development for about 5 months before I realised I hated it. Sitting in front of a screen all day writing code and attending pointless daily standups just wasn't for me. Eventually moved to IT support, which people would probably consider a downgrade, but I've actually enjoyed it a lot more. More interaction, more variety, and plenty of funny customer stories. Pay is decent, I can WFH, and generally have a pretty comfortable setup.Still, I've been thinking about making a complete career change and getting into mortuary science. Something about the idea appeals to me. Working with the dead seems more tangible than spending another 40 years staring at a monitor and dealing with corporate bullshit. Also seems like a profession AI isn't going to replace anytime soon.Am I romanticising it? Anyone here actually work in the funeral industry or make a similar career change?
>>34999527i heard a son of one of my moms coworkers studied it for a while and ended up quitting cause it was too much. If you do end up studying it and can deal with seeing corpses daily (which 90% of the time not be as pretty as pic) its definitely easy to find work on it and make good money. My recomnedation is that you keep working IT while studying it and see if you like it, just in case
>>34999527My wife's family owns a funeral home and I've helped out from time to time. My impressions:>It's a lot more about dealing with people than corpses: families, preachers, florists, graveyard managers, co-workers, et cetera>If you don't want to deal with people, become an enbalmer. Enbalmers can work for themselves and contract out to different funeral homes as needed once they establish themselves.>Most funeral homes are owned by large corporations, particularly Dignity. I have less insight into these but it seems like the corpo life is more predictable than working for a mom and pop.>There's a lot of continuing education involved to keep your licenses current.>Lots of travel and late nights.>Expect to see some shit. Dead babies, suicides, old folks left to rot in their homes, car accident victims. Shit gets nasty.>Expect to work with eccentrics and outcasts. My father-in-law has had to fire people for: smoking meth on the job, being a pedophile, taking upskirts of other employees, and stealing body parts.
>>34999564>stealing body partsLel, for what though? Most of these deads come to the morgue when they are not so fresh making it pointless to harvest their organs or sell their parts
>>34999574My understanding is that she was using them for witchcraft, but of course I'm only hearing this secondhand.
>>34999603Was she african?
>>35000125Nah, white as hell.
>>34999574Real human bones can fetch a pretty good price
>>35000419I wanna sell your parts on the black market
>>34999527I think about this myself every once in a while. Becoming a mortician or sometimes an emt. But then I think about motorcycle accidents and dead babies and I'm not so sure any more.It's a huge change. I don't think you'll know whether you like it or not until you get some experience with it.
>>35001994How to get experience?
>>34999527God, what am I saying, at this poor woman's wake!
why would you post this picture alongside your post? are you a virgin that can't score a living woman? lmao
