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Anticipating a wildly successful future? Doing good work and being nice comes…
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Posted on October 27, 2010 at 10:00pm — 1 Comment
The typical college grad, after 4 years of school and often tens of thousands in student loan debt can expect to make $30,000 a year or less (if they can get a job at all now). An experienced 5+ year professional in demand can make $60,000 a year. Of course this varies from industry to industry, from city to city, but my point is this: Massage Therapists typically think in terms of hours, most other professions think in terms of a year when it comes to income. And when you start your career…
ContinuePosted on October 21, 2010 at 1:30pm — 1 Comment
I had to experience it first hand. MT's are feeling pretty passionate about how it's affected the industry and I wanted to experience it for myself before creating my own opinion.
So here's what I experienced:
1) I booked a Sports Massage. What I got was a weak Swedish massage that neglected to address my low back, glutes, shoulders, occiput and head entirely. The strokes and technique used indicated a complete lack of understanding of muscle anatomy and/physiology. ( 1…
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Hey Mark!
I've been a therapist for seven years now. I joined here to communicate with other therapists; for most of my career I just did my own thing ;)
I took your survey and read a bit on your webpage; good job!
Pleasure to meet you and thanks for accepting my friendship!
Kris