You make an excellent point.

It does take training, but you have to be born with the innate ability. Even people with the capacity for other magic won't be able to animate the dead if they're not born with it. It's an inherited "gift."

It skips a bunch of generations sometimes, but my grandmother can do it, too. She handled my early training.

Enjoy it? I'm not sure anyone's ever asked me that before. I'm good at it, so there's that, and it's the kind of thing you have to either use or lose control, so my career options were limited. But sure. When I can use it to help people, I enjoy it. For some people, it's an embarrassing curse, but I don't mind it. Some of the perks are nice, too.

The partial immunity to vampire mind tricks is pretty great. Saved my ass a few times.

Yeah. Not even a little bit. The extent of their power is pretty impressive. It doesn't take much for them to roll someone's mind. The older they are, the easier it is for them to influence you. Just a bad business all-around.

I've never met any that could actually shapeshift, pretty sure that's a myth. I'm sure if they got control of your mind, though, they could make you think they were a bat.

I think most of them aren't too concerned with what would probably qualify as vampire party tricks.

If only more people saw mind control or thought-probing as the violation it really is. Thankfully, more laws are starting to go into effect concerning what vampires can and can't do within the bounds of legality.