-- My job with the dead --

I was a senior in high school. I had just moved to a new town and was looking for a job. There weren't many available, but one guy told me that they were looking for someone to help at the one funeral homes in town.

So, in need of some money, I went to the funeral home and was hired on the spot. I guess there aren't too many people who are willing to do this. I wasn't really sure about it either.

The job involved doing various chores, washing the hearse and whatever types of errands that needed to be done around town. Also, at night I would go and assist in moving the bodies to the funeral home. I even learned the techniques involved in the embalming, because they needed assistance at certain times.

What was spooky, was that I had to sleep there at night. I once had a month long stretch of sleeping there, with no breaks, except for going to high school during the day. And the bedroom was next to the embalming room....sometimes I heard noises at night in that room.

I didn't make it a career of course. But I did work for another funeral home for a short while where I went to college.

My strangest job.

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