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The US Navy is "urgently hiring" morticians (hexbear.net)

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[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 19 points 3 days ago

I forget, are morticians the ones where there's no actual qualifications needed to be one or am I thinking of undertakers?

[-] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 30 points 3 days ago

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

[-] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

I would imagine the caskets kinda sell themselves though

[-] darkcalling@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago

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.