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Friday, March 31, 2006

Future Career?

I think as a possible future career I may want to become a massage therapist. I think this will give me the type of life that I want. The school is in Vernon, and it is basically up to me how many years I want to do. After the first year I can work in a spa setting. After two years I could be an accredited therapist in most of Canada and after three years I can become accredited in BC and anywhere else. Tuition is $8000 a year. After I'm done their are so many different areas that I could go into and one of them could be working for myself. I have been doing some reading on the topic and most consider 27 hours a week to be full time. It all depends on the person b/c it takes a lot out of a person mentally and physically. Also they can make anywhere between $50 to $100 a hour. So $50 times 27hours times 52 weeks = 7020. Sweet I could be making over 70 grand a year by only working 27 hours a week. So is it right for me? I have read that Psychology is a good background to have if I were to go into it, so I have that going for me. I personally think I would be really good at it. I know that when I was in a relationship I always liked and offered to give my lady a massage and could keep it up for quite some time. I have been told that I give a good massage and that's without any training. Just imagine what I could do if I start taking courses. The school offers a weekend introduction workshop, so I just signed up for that and if I like it I will apply to study in the fall.

Or will I endup changing my mind after a year and want to do something else. In high school I wanted to be an actor, but anxiety before performing had been taking its toll after 4 years and I needed to take a break. It was weird how it was only before I performed, once I was out there doing it I was fine and when I was finished I felt a tremendous high. Then in college I was interested in the criminal aspect of sociology, so I thought I would get into law in some way. Somehow I felt that it was to limited. My other passion that could lead to a possible career was psychology (another passion was philosophy but all that would lead to is philosophizing about being unemployed.) So I went from wanting to become a doctor in the field, to becoming a counselor, to wanting to teach psych in high school (which is where I first was introduced to it). All of those fell through for a number of reasons. So I will have to wait and see if I add massage therapy to this list or not. I would maybe even like to run a theater that showed old movies or even work at a video store, somewhere I have a true passion for. Unfortunatly it doesn't pay that well and I would love to have a job were if I wanted to could support a wife and kids and give them the things they want.

1 Comments:

  • At 12:42 PM, Blogger Blogger21 said…

    Sounds like you've put a lot of thought into it anyways. LOL. I wish I knew what I wanted to do with my life. My style is to just keep doing what I'm doing until I get pushed on somewhere else (every job I've quit was only b/c of a lay-off, or a move). So I might be in Alberta for a *long* time.

     

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