Archive for November 1st, 2007
Respectful Curiosity and Interest
1 November 2007How can a Massage Therapist have a successful business, when they are money not health and wellness driven? I have a very strong conviction that anyone seeking to be a Massage Therapist or Bodyworker must have the best interest in the wellness of their client and not their pocketbook. Sure I can see going into schooling with the idea you will have enough money to pay your bills making $50-$70 an hour. But once you get into to the actual hands on techniques and the benefits they induce, I feel it turns automatically into how can I help this person in order to better their well-being.
I have met the exception to this assumption. We’ll just call her Money-Driven-Betty. Now I am not one to pick apart others way of life, but when it comes to Massage Therapy it is a sensitive subject. When others try and make it a reputable profession it?s hard to accept that some therapists may drag it under and through the Wall Street of Money Driven Manipulation. Miss MD Betty smokes and smells like a chimneystack, she wears high hills, wool suits and acrylic nails in her sessions and doesn’t care what your condition is just as long as you have money, stating, “I’m a Business Women, My clients are Doctors and Lawyers or wealthy business owners. I won’t massage anyone unless they can afford me weekly.”
I personally have not had the uh, pleasure of receiving a massage from MD Betty, she may even have awesome technique, but I am utterly confused as to how she plans on making a business career out of being a Massage Therapist with these less then healthy and unconventional attributes riding on her sleeves.