One of my favorite jobs was working in a cemetery as the guy who digs the graves in my 20s. I got to be outside 8 hours a day maintaining the grounds (mostly doing gardening work, occasionally picking up trash that blew in, etc) and digging big ass holes.
The pay was the absolute minimum wage the company employeeing me was legally allowed to pay, kept my hours under the threshold to provide me any benefits whatsoever, and constantly tried to exploit my labor, but I liked the work itself. My customers never complained and that was pretty great.
The death industry is fucking despicable though, I am very happy to not be a cog in that machine anymore. Still though, it was pretty nice having a job that kept me in shape and I took my work seriously to be respectful to both the dead and the families that would visit/attend. Met some pretty cool people doing that work.
But seriously, don’t pay these fucking vultures the ridiculous rates they charge. They feed off peoples grief and they do not give a single fuck once you leave. I’ve personally watched funeral directors take sledgehammers to old vaults that shifted to make space for their current clients, toss remains in the trash, mix up peoples ashes and not give a fuck.
In Poland we call it “nekrobiznes” and everyone despise it, but due to all the corruption ties between them, church,local administrations and doctors, it is immovable rock.
One of my favorite jobs was working in a cemetery as the guy who digs the graves in my 20s. I got to be outside 8 hours a day maintaining the grounds (mostly doing gardening work, occasionally picking up trash that blew in, etc) and digging big ass holes.
The pay was the absolute minimum wage the company employeeing me was legally allowed to pay, kept my hours under the threshold to provide me any benefits whatsoever, and constantly tried to exploit my labor, but I liked the work itself. My customers never complained and that was pretty great.
The death industry is fucking despicable though, I am very happy to not be a cog in that machine anymore. Still though, it was pretty nice having a job that kept me in shape and I took my work seriously to be respectful to both the dead and the families that would visit/attend. Met some pretty cool people doing that work.
But seriously, don’t pay these fucking vultures the ridiculous rates they charge. They feed off peoples grief and they do not give a single fuck once you leave. I’ve personally watched funeral directors take sledgehammers to old vaults that shifted to make space for their current clients, toss remains in the trash, mix up peoples ashes and not give a fuck.
In Poland we call it “nekrobiznes” and everyone despise it, but due to all the corruption ties between them, church,local administrations and doctors, it is immovable rock.