Looking for new opportunities

Hello, my name is Stella and I just recently (and finally) joined this community group.

I working now for a little bit more than 1 year as a massage therapist and of course I'm still pretty new to all kind of options which are out there as well as in the field itself. Currently I'm working for a Franchise place which is pretty ok but the money earned doesn't cover my fixed costs and I desperately would like to find some other place to work which would pay me more per hour. I also did work for a chiropractic office for 9  month but having had 2 massage jobs got a bit too much (I was working 7 days a week).

Here are some questions I would like to get some respond and advice to:

1) I absolutely would love to pursue a direction with sports massage and therefore, would like to work with athletes or even in some kind of sports rehab/ rehab place but I'm not sure if those kind of places pay even adequate money? Does anyone has experience working in an environment like that and could give me some ideas at which places I could apply to that would work with a population like that? (would some sort of physical therapy place be a good idea to work at?)

2) It would also be helpful to find out what is normally an average amount of hours a massage therapist should/could be working per week? (Currently I'm working 28hours per week; used to work 36hours when I still worked at the chiropractic office as well) What is good, what is too much/unsafe?

3) Last but not least: What other jobs do Massage Therapist have, since we are of course not able to and shouldn't work 40hour/week like "regular" employees do? I would like to find a second job that is also related in a way to massage but I'm not too fond of sitting on a desk for 8 hours; any ideas?

I appreciate all your answers and helpful insight information; and please forgive me if some of my questions might appear silly. Keep in mind that I'm still pretty new as a Massage Therapist.

Thanks