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Wednesday, May 09 2007 @ 11:57 AM EDT

Help middle aged woman go to embalming school

Contributed by: sundance | Views:: 141

Dear Barry,

After careful consideration, I have decided to become an embalmer if I can find the money to put me through school. This is a job which repulses most people and that works to my advantage in my small town in Appalachia. When a regular job does come open here it creates a feeding frenzy and I, 52 and with a back injury and grey hair,find myself limping through an ocean of young, perky applicants to give my resume to someone who won't even read it. I never see anyone ganged up around the door of a funeral home to apply for a job. They are begging for people and I am willing and ready to learn.

Most grants for study are closed to me because I already have a degree. Yes, I have a Master of Fine Arts Degree which I earned at a German University. I was married to a drunken german for 14 years and mistakenly spent that time trying to fit in a foreign country instead of establishing myself in my own.

Since I have been back in the States I have :
painted scenery at an outdoor theatre for $30.00 per day; taught art appreciation as an adjunct for $600.00 per month, substituted in the public schools for $30.00 a day, worked for a toxic lawyer for $10.00 and hour until he spit in my face and I quit. I am out of options. The idea of working as an embalmer seems like a job from heaven at this point.

I have talked to local funeral homes and they encourage me to become certified. I very, very much want to do this.

The course I am looking at has basic tuition cost of $5,200.00 for the entire course, plus books and various fees. One trip to New York would be necessary. I calculate that $8,000.00 would pay for everything. That does not include my living expenses of $500.00 per month - my needs are few and I am happy with little.

Anything you could help me with would be a God-send. Thanks, Sundance