Posted on 07/15/2013 2:18:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
According to the BLS, embalmers earn $43,680 a year. The top 10% bring in $62,230, on average. Embalming is one of the oldest-known professions, and entails getting bodies ready for interment based on legal requirements.
Elsewhere in the industry, funeral service managers make $79,930 a year, on average. Top earners in this line of work are paid $140,740 a year for planning, directing, or coordinating the services or resources of funeral homes.
Another unusual job that pays fairly well: Genetic counselors. According to BLS data, there are only 2,000 of these professionals in the U.S. right now. What do they do? They assess individual or family risk for a variety of inherited conditions, such as genetic disorders and birth defects. They also advise individuals and families to support informed decision-making and coping methods for those at risk. Genetic counselors make $55,820, on average—while the top 10% make about $85,790 a year.
Gehring found that you can also make $25 to $100 an hour as a live mannequin or human statue—and ice cream tasters, who are usually qualified food scientists with a degree in chemistry, make $56,000 a year.
“The jobs I describe in [the book] are meant to inspire people to come up with their own great ideas for making money,” Gehring says. “People are most likely to be successful if they match a perceived need with their own individual skill sets or passions. For example, maybe you love healthy cooking and notice that a lot of families in your neighborhood order pizza every night. That could be your cue to start a healthy meal catering and delivery service. I love hearing stories about people who found a way to make their passion meet a need, and wound up making a lot of money in the process.
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funeral service managers make $79,930 a year, on average
Then why do they all seem to be wearing cheap suits?
Probably hand me downs from former customers.
I remember an old mortician who looked like Boris Karloff. He had an upstairs apartment in his Mortuary.
Now, kitty-link a lesbian embalmer/undertaker with a lesbian mercy-killer and what do you have?
Being a Kartrashian.
“YOU’LL NEVER RUN OUT OF CUSTOMERS.”
That’s right, and they hardly ever complain!
bkmk
I have always said a goal in life would be to control EVERY funeral parlor in the world, or at least have a piece of them.
BUT
The way my luck has been running, about the time I bought up the last parlor, some clown would invent a pill that allowed everyone to live forever.
Years and years ago the butcher at my father’s grocery would answer the phone:
“IGA mortuary! You kill’em. We chill’em. Our customers never kick”
or
“IGA mortuary! You stab’em. We slab’em.”
RE: some clown would invent a pill that allowed everyone to live forever.
There will still be wars, shootings and murder...
Then why do they all seem to be wearing cheap suits?
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That is one of ‘those’ businesses that you can’t look like you are too prosperous....
Like the asphalt or concrete driveway estimator.
People like to ‘show off’ and run around in Hummers or big dually pickups....
Better to show up in a fairly ‘late model’, clean work type pickup or maybe smaller SUV... Look too successful and the ‘proposed client’ will shy away and think you are overcharging in order to pay for all that fancy equipment.
I'm not sure, but I'm thinking maybe a "killer" presidential ticket for maybe 2028?
I've owned and run my business for over 30 years and have found just the opposite to be true. I found that the more successful I appeared the easier it was to get jobs.
Wonder how much those people that are shooting range target holders are making these days?
***** “Cruise Ship Entertainer, Average pay: $3,000 to $4,500 a month, plus room and board” ******
Hell I can do that!
TT
Maybe it's a function of where I live (suburb of Boston) but that doesn't seem like a whole lot of money to me, especially for somebody running a funeral home. I figured they would make $200 to $300k easy. They charge enough for their services and don't even talk to me about the profit margin on their caskets!
My dearly missed mortician friend said that the funeral industry is suffering due to the economy. Fewer people were being buried, and more families were forced to opt for the less expensive cremation option.
No expensive casket, no expensive embalming, no expensive plot.
Hmmm ... maybe THAT'S why she never returned my calls ... ?
Why would family members of the deceased cause them any problems?
The requirements are rather still though and it's a dead end job.
Learn Mandarin, Russian, Farsi or Arabic and become an American-born translator/interpreter. I’ve seen starting pay for a fluent speaker at $160K.
Stiff not still .... ah shot ... ruined the joke
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