Massage ENVY?
19 July 2007OK, so I am have a real hard time with the Massage Envy concept. Not for the consumer, but the therapist.
I know I was told when I went to school; you can be your own boss, make your own hours, make 60 to 80 dollars an hour and pay off your school loans within the first year. All gimmicks to get me to sign up, when all I really needed and wanted to hear was how I could help people out and earn a good living for my family.
Getting paid $15 dollars an hour giving anywhere between 2-8 massages a day does not sound appealing. Are their benefits to being a Massage Envy MT? Why yes there are, do the pro’s outweigh the con’s? I guess it depends on where you are coming from.
Owning your own business takes hard work and a majority of your “free” time. You have advertising, customer service, supplies and rent. However, on the flip side you have the satisfaction of maintaining good personable client relationships and time for one on one consultations for bettering the health of your clients tissue with self help information and proper time for PA and ROM testing.
With over 230 clinics across the US, Massage Envy has taken away the responsibility of the MT to properly assess and treat clients. It is an assembly line rolling through with no time for lasting benefits. Sure there is always benefit to healthy touch, but can they truly call it therapeutic? The MT gets a discount on their yearly payment for insurance ($15). Oils, lotions, sheets, music, advertising, equipment and sometimes even healthy and not so healthy snacks are provided. ENVY? I will let you be the judge. Where is the satisfaction?
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