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Canadian data · Ontario, Canada
A family arrives at ten and you spend ninety minutes on decisions they are in no state to make. In the afternoon you drive, you carry, you fix a printer, you press a suit. The phone can ring at three in the morning and you go.
Diploma plus licensed internship
A licence — without it you cannot legally do the work.
$15,000 – $25,000 plus a paid internship year
You earn while you learn.
$50k – $90ka year, Ontario
The low number is what you should plan on for the first years.
Openings a year
150 openings a year · More of it each year
Demographics only move one way for the next twenty years.
Who else is asking
about 3 people per opening
Low. The filter is whether you can do it at all, not who else applied.
Whether a machine takes it
exposure: low
Paperwork got digital. Sitting with a family at 2 a.m. did not.
Where the work is
everywhere
Every town has one. Ownership is consolidating into chains.
Who actually does it
who's in the room
Family businesses, still — but the apprenticeship route is now the majority.
How soon you earn
About 8 weeks to your first paycheque
Counted from the day you decide, not the day you start.
No bottleneck — but a required internship placement is the real filter.
On-call permanence. The job does not respect your calendar, ever.
Funeral home management, bereavement services, pre-planning, embalming specialisation.
Ask a local funeral home for a twenty-minute conversation about the on-call rota. Nothing else.
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