Massage Education

If you think that the only possible job you may get after you graduate from massage therapy school is a gig at the neighborhood spa, wellness and health center, think again. There are a lot of promising massage therapy careers in store for you. This article will list down some of them here, if only to uplift your spirits and strengthen your optimism with regard to pursuing a massage therapy career. Keep caution, though. While there may be a lot of high paying jobs in store for massage therapists, these may also be far and between. Unless the therapist is licensed, the going rate for newbie therapists these days is between ten and fifteen dollars.

Before anything else, you have to know that you can choose to either be employed or self-employed. If you want to be the latter, you can either be an independent contractor (who serves group or in private offices, associations and the like by appointment or via a drawn up agreement) or an entrepreneur (who starts his or her own massage therapy business like chiropractor centers, spas and wellness centers and the like) If you think you have good business acumen, it may be ideal for you to do private practice. You can also help other licensed massage therapy specialists by taking them in and letting them work for you.

Meanwhile, if you want to be employed, you have a lot of opportunities to put into practice your newly found skills in an array of settings. Some of these include health resorts, cruise ships, salons (especially those which cater to men), casinos, hotels, nursing homes, hospitals, hospice centers, day spas, animal rescue facilities, race tracks, health clubs, gyms, holistic centers, schools and downtown business centers, airports and malls (ideal for on-site or seated chair massages).

You can also find opportunities in multidisciplinary clinics (these are health clinics that have a lot of services, these can be considered one-stop shops for health care and treatments), doctors' or chiropractor's offices (you can also get to learn from your bosses), rehabilitation centers (you can either provide massage therapy training to other employees there or you can do the therapy yourself), nursing homes (also called retirement centers; you can practice your healing massage therapy training on elderly people), fitness facilities (you can be the all-around instructor or supervisor there or a gym member may hire you for one-on-one sessions and house calls; a job in high end clubs can especially be advantageous since you tend to receive generous tips every now and then) and professional sports teams or clubs (this is a very good opportunity especially if you get to work for popular teams, they usually set aside a big budget for the salaries of their physical therapists and you will be exposed to professional and challenging environments).

Indeed, great careers lie ahead for those who undertake massage education.