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I think I might not want to be a funeral director anymore. I'm not sure. I think maybe I want to go back to school and get a B.A. and/or a Masters. I think. *sigh* All my friends are finally graduating (Go you!) and here I am thinking of jumping back in. But I"m jut not sure I'm capable of being a funeral director. And now, whenever I try to
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I have started my residency as well and I feel so let down and I keep thinking maybe this isn't what I want to do. I mean I actually do want to be a funeral director, I think I went into it seeing dollar signs and all these people are discouraging me by saying oh it's the wrong reasons. I want to own my funeral home. I am a science lover, I don't understand it well but I have a desire to and I enjoy learning, embalming was so interesting at first and really its the only way at this point in my life that I could really make it in the funeral industry. Young females are laughed at in this field! I am almost 20 years old and nobody takes me seriously! No body wants me to be their grief counselor because they think I can't comprehend. They come in to the funeral home looking for some old grey haired man to make their arrangements. Embalming was neat at first, I enjoyed it and then I realized it was really the only place I could REALLY work in this business and I don't want to be stuck in a prep room for the next 10-15 years so that by the time I look and seem old enough for people to take me seriously as a director that I've got lung cancer and half-blindness from all the chemicals. I tried to get a job selling preneed but those people don't even take me seriously everybody looks for some ugly old geezer in the death/after care industry. I don't want to give up and just like you said I will go through with my residency and all and get my license. I hate when I try and talk to some one about it though because they think "oh she's giving up or I told her she wouldn't be able to stomach all that gore or I knew that girl wouldn't make it." And it's none of that. It's ver frustrating, I understand and I definitely wish you luck.
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