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Although still little-known in France, cleaning and disinfecting premises after a death is a business that is relatively easy for working-class or lower-middle-class men to enter, since it requires neither a specific diploma nor significant economic capital. The article shows that people do not set up these businesses at the end of their initial training, but rather during the course of their career, by following one of three typical career mobility paths: internal, within the cleaning sector; reconversion from an adjacent sector; or bifurcation. Access to self-employed status and to an activity that can be enhanced by specific technical and interpersonal skills offer a career path with opportunities for advancement and professional satisfaction.