You just graduated from massage school and are ready to go out into the world and find that wonderful job in massage that you were told about. You send out a few applications, go for interviews and you take the first job that you are offered only to find out later that it is the massage job from #^&*@! You are working long hours without breaks between sessions, the chiropractor is billing $120 an hour and you are only making $20 an hour, your massage office doesn’t have a real door but only a curtain dividing you from the hair salon, you can’t get a key to the office because of problems with past employees. These are actually stories that I have heard from massage therapists.

Finding a job in the massage profession that pays really well and can support you on your path to being a massage therapist is really about first creating an image of your Ideal Job in Massage.

1. What is your philosophy on healing and health?
2. What type of environment would you like to work in? With doctors, other medical professionals, at a spa, on a cruise ship?
3. How much would you like to get paid? What benefits do you want?
4. What hours do you want to work?
5. What incentives are there for you to get clients to come back or even bring in new clients?
6. Do you have complete control over the session or will someone be instructing you what to do and how to do it?

Once you get a list of places that you think you would like to work at and that would fit your idea of your ideal massage job, start doing some company research. Go and get a dozen massages there and see how you like the service and environment. Ask the massage therapist there what it is like to work there. Find out what the management and service is like first hand. Then you can decide if you want to be part of such an environment. You don’t have to take the first job that is offered to you. If you are desperate for a job and need to do that do it knowing that it will be a learning experience. It will be a stepping stone to finding out what you do want in a massage job. Sometimes when you are first out of school, you won’t really care. Expect to change jobs until you find your ideal job or have the patience to participate in whatever job you do take. While you may think that getting a job means that you don’t have to do much and that clients will just be directed to you - you will be much more successful if you treat it as if it were your own practice. Learn to work with clients and communicate and educate them as to what getting regular massage can do. Having repeat clients will show the management that you are good at what you do. It will give you leverage in asking for what you want.

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Julio Onofrio
Founder www.thebodyworker.com

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