Our country has a population of 1.4 billion, and the annual mortality rate is about 6 per 1,000. There are now more than 3,500 funeral parlors, cemeteries, crematoriums, cemeteries and other institutions in the country. Nowadays, most people working in the funeral industry have a junior high school education, and there is a large demand for high-level management service personnel. A social market survey found that the annual salary of students graduating from the funeral management major in large cities can even reach 180,000 yuan.
Due to the secrecy of traditional concepts, some parents and candidates reject funerals from the bottom of their hearts. Therefore, the funeral management major has always been a relatively unpopular major. There are relatively few schools that offer this major. In fact, this unpopular major is truly the most popular in the job market? Everyone can get a career establishment with good remuneration and benefits.
At present, the main schools offering funeral management majors in China are: Changsha Civil Affairs Vocational and Technical College, Beijing Social Vocational Management College, Chongqing Urban Management Vocational College (formerly Chongqing Civil Affairs School of the Ministry of Civil Affairs), Wuhan Vocational College for Nationalities, Fujian Civil Affairs School, Liaoning Civil Affairs School, Henan Civil Affairs School, etc.
What do children majoring in funeral management learn? Students majoring in funeral management at Changsha Vocational and Technical College of Civil Affairs also posted a course schedule that was even more "chilling". Monday’s introduction to funerals, body collection, plastic surgery, and flower arrangement; Tuesday’s bone burning, elegiac couplets, Feng Shui, and infectious diseases? After reading it, netizens exclaimed: “The taste is a bit heavy”, and “there is no end to learning.”
Students majoring in funeral management have learned a lot, such as the basic technique of making paper flowers. In order to make the deceased look more peaceful, it is also very necessary to learn the technique of making up the corpse. , the various props and teaching aids involved are also diverse; familiarity and operation of some "funeral equipment" are also essential in teaching; in addition to cremation equipment and technology, funeral rituals, funeral floral arrangements, and even related to the Book of Changes course!
Due to the high demand for such professional talents in the market, students in this major are not faced with "unemployment upon graduation", but with high salaries and funeral units rushing to get them. But why are there not many people applying for such a major with "money prospects" and good employment?
First of all, of course, I like traditional concepts. People are a bit taboo about the funeral industry. It is precisely because of this that this major is relatively easy to find a job and the salary is good. We will find a very strange phenomenon. When people need funeral services, they respect these people. Once their services are no longer needed, they stay away from them and look at them through colored glasses.
There is a popular saying among students majoring in funeral management: "Jobs are easy to find, but partners are hard to find". Most students in this major can only find their significant other in this major and industry. After all, people It will take some time for the concept to change.
There is a film in Japan that reflects the funeral industry called "The Encoffiner", which won the Best Foreign Language Film at the 81st Academy Awards. It tells the story of a young cellist who became an undertaker after the band disbanded. There is a sentence in the work of a teacher that is impressive: Death may be a door, and what passes away is not the end, but the transcendence and the next step?
What practitioners in the funeral industry give people It is the "ultimate care" and the "ferryman" who accompanies the deceased on their last journey. We face the arrival of new life with joy, and we should also face the passing of life calmly. It takes courage to work in this industry, and it also requires respect.
So the question is, faced with such a good job, a promising career, and a challenging major, would you choose it?