Starting your own Crime Scene Cleanup Business - The Reality

Because I own the domain name www.crimescenecleanup.com and a few like to it, I receive telephone calls in clusters related to becoming a "crime scene cleaner." I guess a television show airs from time-to-time and mentions this line of business.

Most callers know little if anything about cleaning trauma. They have heard somewhere that they will make $100 per hour in this business. Generally, they need work and have been out of work for a while. So I break the news, "This is a very competitive business field." "Sorry," I say, "I don't hire." "Don't quit your day job," I say. (See "How will I do in the Crime Scene Cleanup business?)

I also say that if "you have an existing business, then it may make some sense to add trauma cleaning as an add-on," otherwise, you need deep pockets, a rich daddy, and some luck.

Consequently, if any person representing a "school" says you will make tons of money, beware. If you have some "gaps" in your formal education, you need to really beware because some schools have "gaps" in their formal education. You want as much for your time and money as you can get, and the better your education, the more likely that you are to benefit from more training and education. It's like the snowball story, the farther the snowball rows down hill, the bigger it becomes and the faster it grows.

Good luck.
Eddie Evans