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I'm not asking about the worst job. I'm asking about the grimmest one. For me it was when in my teenage years I was making candles you would put on a grave. Most of the time is was just filling the form, burn the right shape and passing it forward. But sometimes I had to fill in for a person who was selling these things, and that is where it gets grim. It was decades ago but I still remember one lady who asked what would be the best candle to memorialize her late husband. And she gave me the whole life story of her and her husband. I shit you not, it was the most touching love story I have ever heard. I quit the next day.

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[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 78 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Not me, but one of my best friends founded a company to clean up murder scenes, houses in which someone has died and their corpse rotted away for weeks, accident scenes... that sort of thing. His stomach seems perfectly unaffected by gruesomeness of all kinds, so he figured he'd market that particular ability of his.

His lowest rate is $300 / hr for "simple" cleanups and he's doing very, very well.

[–] intelisense@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

There's a great German TV show from a few years back about a crime scene cleaner "Tatortreiniger". It's more philosophical/funny than gruesome and worth a watch if you don't mind reading sub-titles. The BBC did an adaptation in English, but I've not watched it yet.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Does he wear a hazmat suit or something similar?

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah he wears heavy biohazard protection, complete with the hood and the respirator and everything. He's better isolated than a cosmonaut on the job.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

On a somewhat related note, Crime Scene Cleaner is such an oddly relaxing, thought a bit gruesome, game.