What kind of experience is it to engage in the funeral industry?

What kind of experience is it to engage in the funeral industry? Actually, unlike what many people think, my answer is-insipid.

As an old contractor who has worked for many years, the feeling of doing this business can be simply summarized into eight words: unexpected, reasonable. This sentence can basically be perfectly applied to any scene.

Before I joined the funeral industry, like everyone else, my biggest impression of the funeral industry was "high salary". After all, gossip is everywhere. Today, this one-stop company earned 3w8, and tomorrow that funeral parlour will work the night shift 1600. Why does .............................................................................................. say that? Let me give you a brief introduction:

The average salary of funeral home staff is 6-8k, and the front-line staff of funeral service company is around1.5w. Is it low at first glance? However, the nature of funeral practitioners' work is 24-hour standby, and it is normal to turn around in hospitals and funeral homes during the peak of death. During this period, they had to fight against all kinds of emergencies.

Death can happen anytime and anywhere. They can't choose when to leave. We can't choose guests for any reason. The deceased is the biggest. This is the most basic professional quality and moral standard for funeral practitioners. In this way, high-intensity physical and mental work, in Shanghai, the most expensive city, we earn hard work. I don't care about the "high salary" of the old one-stop, but the actual payment of most funeral people is much higher than the salary received;

The picture shows Li Chenxi, the ferry housekeeper, participating in the publicity filming of "A New Job in March".

The second point is the work situation. Now the funeral industry can attract many young people to enter this industry. Why? Because they generally believe that "it is the gospel of social fear to hold a funeral without dealing with the living" ... the ideal is full and the reality is very skinny. Although the funeral industry is essentially to provide services for the "deceased", the emotional bond between relatives and friends and the deceased will not disappear because of his departure. How to make a funeral that can not only send off the deceased gracefully, but also give spiritual comfort to relatives and friends is particularly important.

During the whole 3-5 days of mourning, the first-line mourners must always keep in touch with the families of the deceased. Only by knowing the life of the deceased in detail, the demands of the deceased's family members for funeral specifications, and even the help that the family members need, can we really do a good job in funeral services that are satisfactory to both the deceased and the living. Even professional plastic surgeons need to communicate with their families and repair the remains of the deceased as needed. Therefore, funeral is not only an industry dealing with the dead, but also dealing with the living is the top priority of funeral services;

Some people will also hear people say, "It is not difficult to communicate with family members, just to understand their needs." Indeed, it is certainly not difficult to communicate like a cursory tour. The cost and difficulty of real communication lies in "thousands of people". There is a completely different family structure and environment behind each victim. Today, the five children of the Zhang family have their own views on their father's funeral. Who should they listen to? Which relative should I communicate with when the Li family dies tomorrow? To satisfy every household, it is impossible to rely on stylized questions and answers.

Multiply this spread intensity by 365 days, covering Shanghai 16 district, and I think everyone can understand why I said that funeral is a dual labor of physical strength and mental power.

Here is a legendary life planner Xiao Cao, born in 1996, who has been engaged in the funeral industry for five years. From the first day he entered the company, he only took half a day off on the day of his engagement with his partner, and immediately returned to work after the ceremony. He is either communicating with his family or on his way. No matter if you call him late at night or early in the morning, he will always get through in 5 seconds and reach his destination in 30 minutes.

This kind of work intensity is the daily life of the front-line undertaker of our company. We seriously refute the comments on the internet that the funeral industry is very casual. When the work is too tired, everyone will also ridicule each other for retirement. One second, I was holding a teacup and said, the next, I put on a black uniform representing a professional undertaker, because there are still family members waiting for our help at a loss. It is our responsibility to rush to the families and the dead at the first time. If you don't believe me, you are very welcome to study with our planning teacher for a day ~

In these years in the funeral industry, what surprised me most was the attitude of the funeral people around me towards death. Everyone has not seen through the world of mortals and faced death calmly. The reason is that they have seen too many different bodies and experienced various death scenes, so it is easier to understand how much a person's death affects their relatives and friends. It is no exaggeration to say that this is an emotional "earthquake". Death can't be empathetic, but we can see the sadness of our families, so we will try our best to give them practical help and comfort.

In fact, outside of work, we are just a group of ordinary people with tears and laughter. This ordinary but extraordinary career has really brought us many different experiences. Tired? Really tired; Is it difficult? It's not difficult, but we start with the death that the living don't want to face, and make the final farewell of life decent through intentional funeral service, so that more family members can sincerely sigh that "their loved ones have gone well", which is indeed a sense of accomplishment.

Funeral is really an industry that ordinary people don't want to come to, but it is worth more people to join.

May more people understand the solemnity and responsibility of death.