A question I had from one of the profiles we've read from funeral director Don Byles and his daughter Mackenzie Byles. My question was what is a major for being a funeral director? I thought this was interesting because I've never heard of anyone going to school to be a funeral director. When I looked this up I found out that it's literally just going to school for funeral service or mortuary science. To be a funeral director you need at least an associates degree but it's better to have a bachelors degree and once you have at one of these degrees you have to go through certificate programs to get your license to become one.
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| A funeral director is referred to as an undertaker. Funeral directors provide sympathetic support and the respectful disposition of the body of a loved one. |
A theme that I see in our reading is following a parents footsteps when it comes to a career or having parents that aren't supportive of the career you choose. I can relate to this because almost everyone in my family is either a teacher or someone working in a school such as a secretary and then the other half of my family are working in hospitals or nursing homes as nurses. And then there's me, wanting to do something completely different than everyone else and my family doesn't support it. They think I should become some kind of teacher or go to school to become a nurse or something in the medical field.
I think that my best vocabulary word so far in Callings is demarcation. This word is my best because I don't think I've ever heard this word before. The definition is the action of fixing the boundary or limits of something. This word is on page 38 in the McNair profile. This word is used in the sentence "he saw no lines of demarcation." Exploring this word I learned about the "demarcation line" and the "demarcation problem". The demarcation line was a boundary line marking the division of Metropolitan France into the territory occupied and administered by the German Army. The demarcation problem is about how to distinguish between science and nonscience.
Im glad you looked up information on schooling for being a funeral directer I was also curious. I really didn't think there would be schooling needed for this career. Interesting!
ReplyDeleteWhat are you wanting to become? I also have parents who don't approve of what I want to be.
ReplyDeleteI also chose a theme similar to yours. I think you should keep working at what you wanna be! Theyll support you in the end.
ReplyDeleteI didn't realize that their was actually a major for funeral director. That's very cool i can also relate to my parents not liking what i do. They wanted me to be in the Coast Guard.
ReplyDeleteSuper interesting vocab choice!
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