Do you have a five year plan?

@Mrsbetweenfatandfit Sounds like you have it figured out! I wish you luck! What kind of career do you want?

@SW-User I plan on becoming a funeral director and maybe one day a mortician. And thank you!

@Mrsbetweenfatandfit Someone I went to high school with wants to do that. It sounds like an interesting career.

@SW-User It is interesting and pretty secure too always need people for them

@Mrsbetweenfatandfit A good friend of mine went to Mortuary School and became a Funeral Director. Can make a lot of money but it's a really emotionally taxing job.

@UndeadPrivateer Yes it is, only for those with true empathy and have been able to experience and persevered through great loss.

@Mrsbetweenfatandfit Yeah, he's definitely one of those. He has had some major depressive episodes since taking the job on due to a lot of the stressors on the job regardless though. Some things you really just don't quite expect going in or at least don't expect to affect you in that way. Dealing with children and families and stuff and having to also deal with the grieving loved ones. Can be really hard on the mind.

@UndeadPrivateer Unfortunately those are things you should expect before going in, death isn't all elderly or sick adults. But I suppose most don't consider that. I imagine if you picture it as the other than the first small little person you deal with would be quite traumatizing.

@Mrsbetweenfatandfit Not even his first, for him he's explained as just kind of striking him unexpectedly, the things the family say and being forced to face the situation very physically. A lot of really visceral emotion involved in that, hard [i]not[/i] to have it affect you. He also has a lot of horror stories of things that his coworkers did that made him question staying in the profession due to the horrible, disrespectful things some people do to the corpses. But then he also can't stomach leaving because he feels like it's a duty of his to take proper care of the dead.

Basically all of this is just saying: The mortuary profession is absolutely not for the faint of heart in any way, shape or form.

@UndeadPrivateer No certainly not, but I can't imagine anyone pictures that career as easy or unemotional. It is a very important part of any community and the responsibility is one I feel people should feel good about. Death is something we all face and see but to be a part of trying to simplify such a confusing and painful time for families that is a good deed done.

@Mrsbetweenfatandfit Definitely, you can do a lot of good and help a lot of people through a really terrible time. If it's something you've got the stomach for then it's certainly an important job that needs doing. It would simply be a lot easier if there were less sociopaths actively engaged in the profession as well.

@UndeadPrivateer true a certain member here who actively discuss role play of those already passed away I truly hope never does so in real life. It is so disrespectful and quite sick.

@Mrsbetweenfatandfit I wouldn't be surprised if she does by what said friend has told me he came across behind the scenes. There are some truly sick people out there.

@UndeadPrivateer Sadly it is so