Mikas Bieksa used to work in a funeral home back in Lithuania, doing a lot of helping stuff. Mikas would be tasked with gravedigger and pallbearer duties, sometimes filling in the grave and helping with carrying of the coffin during the funeral processions. Mikas has had the chance to learn a lot about how people face their own mortality or the mortality of their loved ones, which had an impact on Mikas Bieksa. He realized that you should hold your friends and family very very close, cause you never know what might happen eventually. Although, it wasn't an easy job, especially tasking on the head, cause every day you have to desensitize yourself and detach from your emotions. That helps on the ice though, you come into the game fully locked in, fully aware of what might happen and you just calmly prepare yourself whatever the game will throw at you. So, in reality, the job had an effect on Mikas' life and hockey career, cause Mikas had to mature himself mentally quite quick, which translates into his game.