My 13 year old was the last kid in her class to give a presentation on a career she'd like to do. The way they did it was you pretend you've been in the career and are coming back on career day to explain what your career is like to the kids in the middle school.

Some of you may recall that for the last two years she's been interested in being an undertaker/mortician. So that's what she chose as her career for the presentation.

Apparently it was a pretty big hit. After the presentation there is a question and answer session, and her classmates were asking a bunch more questions than they did with any of the other careers.

Question: "Does being a mortician take away time from your family?"
Her answer: "Well that really doesn't apply to me because I just have a good dog" (she asked my husband once if she HAD to get married when she grew up, and when he said no, she sighed with relief and said "Good, because I don't want a companion unless it's a good dog" LOL)

Question: "Do you have to go to college for it?"
Her answer: "es you have to have a bachelor's degree" (the kind of degree depends on the state)

Question: "Do you have to wrap the body up like a mummy?"
Her answer: "Sometimes, depending on how they died" (no idea how true this is)

Question: "Do you get hungry on the job?"
Her answer: "Sometimes"

Question: "Why did you choose to be a mortician?"
Her answer: "Because dead people don't talk back" (she has frequently said that she'd like to be a mortician because live people annoy her- so she'd rather work with dead ones)

 

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She is a redhead right?

 

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Reddish-brown hair. Bit more brown than red but you can definitely see the red in it.

 

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LOL I like that one.

 

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sounds like she did an awesome job since she was able to answer so many questions.

 

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I worked with one of the top graphic artists in the country who suddenly decided to become a mortician and quit doing graphics. That was 15 ish years ago and as far as I know she is still doing it.

Oh, and she is a red head.

 

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She-Dexter

 

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i enjoy your daughter. you might also suggest to her that animals don't talk back either so an animal career might suit her as well.

 

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or medical examiner, then she could look at their insides too.

 

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This reminds me of a childhood friend I went to school with

the family ran a well known funeral home

he went to time out for keeping peoples money and not doing said service

 

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