Ask Yourself Few Questions before Making a Career in Massage

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Ask Yourself Few Questions before Making a Career
in Massage
Kings Court
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Many people seeking out schools for massage to
begin their journey into a massage therapist
career are attracted by the 'art' of massage. If
you choose to work part time in your massage
therapy career, perhaps from home, then the quiet
time at the massage centre may be a very welcome
respite after your busy and noisy day. If
you are considering a career in massage, this
article prompts you to ask yourself five vital
questions. Answering these questions will not
only give great insights into many important
aspects of what a massage career entails, it will
also help you determine if a massage career is
right for you.
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Do You Care About People? Firstly let me
elaborate on the question. Everyone cares about
at least some people. I mean, do you generally
care about people, do you enjoy caring for
people. This is an important first question to
ask. If you want a long term career in massage,
you want to be able to answer honestly that you
do, because it's the primary role you will have
in your career.
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Are You a Good Self Manager? After embarking
on your career in massage you will need to be a
good self manager. While some will find
employment in spas, sports facilities or medical
clinics, most will enter into their own business
which means you are the boss of you. You will
need to have good time management skills and
manage your bookkeeping, although you will be
able to outsource some of that if you wish. Also
you will need to manage your discipline as you
will predominantly be working unsupervised.
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Do You Have Good Communication Skills?
This is an important question. Some people think
that a massage career is perfect for a quiet,
maybe even an introverted person. In many ways
this is true, but keep in mind that you will need
very good people and communication skills for 2
reasons. You need to deal with clients before
and after treatments, including dealing with an
initial face to face or phone inquiry. If people
don't like you, they will not book a massage with
you, no matter how good you are as a massage
therapist. You need to effectively communicate
to find out any health issues they may have prior
to treatment. Sometimes health issues are of a
sensitive nature and they will not divulge them
unless they feel very comfortable with you.
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Do You Enjoy A Quiet Work Place? Obviously
working as a massage therapist means working in a
quiet work place. No busy office chatter, and
during treatments it means up to an hour of
quiet, although it is common to have relaxing
music in the background. Most massage
therapists actually love this environment and
enjoy the quiet of treatment time. They even find
it meditative and it can be very therapeutic for
them even while they perform the treatment.
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Do You Have Any kind Interest in the Human Body?
This might sound like a strange question. I
recommend you ask it to yourself for two reasons.
During a career in massage you will spend
many hours per week in personal contact with
human bodies, not working near people like in
most jobs but actually touching their bodies. You
can also choose to make a career in adult massage
or erotic massage, but these are not sexual at
all and you do not have to perform sexual acts on
the clients.
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