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Posted on: October 21, 2013

"What is the best way to bring home the most bacon in the shortest time with the least effort?"

This question represents a concise reflection of the most common approach to career selection. Realistic potential to provide a sufficient livelihood to sustain an accustomed or desired living standard is indeed too important to ignore. Nevertheless, one must never forget that money is not the only thing and cannot buy everything in life. This means that you must consider many intangible advantages when trying to identify your ideal career path. Below is a brief discussion of just a few major examples of such altruistic advantages available in the massage therapy profession.

Easy entry

Unlike most allied healthcare and medical careers, training takes less than a year and costs a small fraction of total costs to attend medical school or multi-year degree program completion. Combined with a very attractive earnings potential, this yields an exceptional ROI for training costs. Many online accredited training programs are even available with ultra-flexible class schedules to accommodate students with families and/or full-time employment.

An absence of lengthy internship or residency requirements is another notable advantage of massage therapy training. Rather than having to delay commencement of professional practice for practical clinical participation, you are equipped with all the skills required to begin professional practice right after graduation.

Independence

Therapeutic massage also affords an opportunity to be your own boss as a private practitioner. Being able to set your own work schedule, fee rates, and decide specific service specialty offerings are tremendous benefits that are unavailable in most other careers.

Ability to help others

Massage therapists provide a professional service that greatly enhances the overall health and well-being of their clients. An unfortunate but quite common aspect of medicine is that many treatments can be worse than the underlying condition(s) they purportedly alleviate or eliminate. Not to mention being of minimal effectiveness.

By contrast, therapeutic massage is proven to have immediate and dramatic improvement on many health disorders by expediting recovery. Besides all that, it also has proven effectiveness as a preventive measure for a myriad of health conditions.

Unlike invasive dental, medical, and chiropractic procedures, patients actually look forward to therapeutic massage sessions.

Many mutual rewards

Besides enhancing their clients’ physical health and emotional well-being, professional massage therapists reap a high level of personal satisfaction from having been directly instrumental in improving the quality of life for many fellow human beings. This deep, long-lasting sense of fulfillment is a unique feeling that is a rare feeling indeed among most other occupational pursuits.

Sum total

Overall, massage therapy offers an ideal blend of benefits to anyone willing to make the effort to take advantage of them. The only main qualifications are a degree of caring and self-motivation to harvest that long-dormant potential within your fingers into an abundant crop of huge rewards for many future seasons.

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