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MadSeasonAbove
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So i'm working at a Cemetery..
#5731146 - 06/09/06 03:23 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Wow, I wasn't expecting to get a job like this. It's only for the summer, maybe part-time when school starts back up. Main reason I like it, is it's not excruciating, and the job offers medical/dental benefits, pd. 2 weeks vacation for the first year, if I stay.
Day one consisted of putting a women in her final resting site. Mind you she was 300 pounds when she died. So considering dead weight plus the casket, it was a grunter...The day also was filled with conversations with the guy I work with. And ofcourse the subject of God comes up, what are my beliefs, do you think God is human? and so on..How his grandfather has encountered aliens(and his granddaddy would never tell a lie!)
"The devil is everywhere and everyone is on drugs. That damn information superhighway....he's got it to where you can sin at the click of a button."
He's a bit strange, but I guess that comes with the territory. Occasionally I would ask him questions about how the place is operated, any horror stories and whatnot. Well apparently caskets leak bodily fluids, and one time while he was moving a coffin(which he called a butter dish) and the lid wasn't secure and "shit just poured out all over him," he said. Could you imagine the stench? The guy painted a rosy picture for me. I could faintly smell death when we started talking about that, weird. I also asked him how the place held up during hurricane Charley. He said there were caskets and bodies that were being prepared exposed out in the street. Pretty messed up!! The families never knew though, which is good.
Today, we did basic lawn maintenance, trimming around headstones(or, "markers" as he called them). The sun was scorching hot today. Sweat was pouring off me. But the funny thing is, after a while, it seems like any old job, you kind of forget you're working in a cemetery at times, except when you have to lower a casket or place them in the mausoleum. It feels odd putting someone away in their resting place. Here is this total stranger that I never knew, but here I am laying them in their spot for eternity. I am very careful, and respectful of the dead. It may sound weird, but unless you've done it before, there is a very spiritual thing going on that is felt when putting someone away. It's almost as if time stands still when it's happening, a sense of calm. Almost trippy like.
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Penguarky Tunguin
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Great post man! Looks like you're gonna get some good life experience with this one. Enjoy.
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Dobie
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sounds like it would be a cool job but sometimes with a twist of shitty
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king_cobra
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Re: So i'm working at a Cemetery.. [Re: Dobie]
#5731336 - 06/09/06 04:22 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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i love the calm dreamy atmosphere of cemetaries.
any nice monuments/statues on the new job site?
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Adden

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I bet some pretty fly young widows go there. Get the key for the mausoleum and you're all set.
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lysergicide
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Re: So i'm working at a Cemetery.. [Re: Adden]
#5731490 - 06/09/06 05:39 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Wish I had a job like that. A matter of fact, I live down the street from a cemetary. Maybe a job is just an application away?
P.S. is your pay good?
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Jim


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Mad Season is one of my favorite bands ever...
One thousand times better than Alice in Chains IMO....
I really only liked AIC Unplugged... Layne's voice on the soft stuff was moving, and the lyrics remind me of trying to kick junk...
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Infrared
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Re: So i'm working at a Cemetery.. [Re: Jim]
#5731530 - 06/09/06 05:50 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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jar of flies was good overall.. they were gettin alittle more mellow.. but still rockin hard...
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Penguarky Tunguin
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Re: So i'm working at a Cemetery.. [Re: Jim]
#5731534 - 06/09/06 05:50 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Hell yeah man. "Wake Up" is such a beautiful song.
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Jim


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Im about to post that one!!!! That is my favorite... or Artificial Red...
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Infrared
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Re: So i'm working at a Cemetery.. [Re: Jim]
#5731547 - 06/09/06 05:55 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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ive never heard mad season.. reccomend me a good album or 2
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Jim


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Re: So i'm working at a Cemetery.. [Re: Jim]
#5731548 - 06/09/06 05:55 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Log in to view attachment
Wake Up
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Penguarky Tunguin
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Re: So i'm working at a Cemetery.. [Re: Jim]
#5731551 - 06/09/06 05:56 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Right around the 4 minute mark is one of my favorite transitions ever...
Layne breaks into a scream only he could do and Cameron (I beleive it's Matt Cameron from Pearl Jam and Soundgarden) kicks in the tight drum beat. And then McCready comes in, wailing.....yeah.
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Jim


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Re: So i'm working at a Cemetery.. [Re: Infrared]
#5731552 - 06/09/06 05:56 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I think they released one with layne, and then they at least recorded a second (I think with the vocalist from the screaming trees)....
Get the one with layne...
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Penguarky Tunguin
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Re: So i'm working at a Cemetery.. [Re: Infrared]
#5731553 - 06/09/06 05:56 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
Infrared said: ive never heard mad season.. reccomend me a good album or 2
They only had one album.
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Jim


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Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin
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Penguarky Tunguin
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Re: So i'm working at a Cemetery.. [Re: Jim]
#5731555 - 06/09/06 05:58 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
Jim said: Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin
Damn. 
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Infrared
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Re: So i'm working at a Cemetery.. [Re: Jim]
#5731559 - 06/09/06 05:58 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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cool... im DL'ing it right now
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Jim


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I totally hijacked your thread
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MrMolotov
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Re: So i'm working at a Cemetery.. [Re: Infrared]
#5731565 - 06/09/06 06:00 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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WoW this thread got jacked.....
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