Looking For Massage Therapist Classes? Five Questions You MUST Ask Yourself BEFORE You Begin Your Massage Therapist Career

By Arthur Bakeright

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4 – Do You Enjoy A Quiet Work Place?  

Obviously working as a massage therapist means working in a quiet work place.  No busy office chatter, and during treatments it means up to an hour of quiet, although it is common to have relaxation music in the background. 

Of course this can be extremely desirable for many people.  Most massage therapists actually love this environment and enjoy the quiet of treatment time.  They even find it meditative and it can be very therapeutic for them even while they perform the treatment. 

Also, if you choose to work part time in your massage therapist career, perhaps from home, then this quiet time may be a very welcome respite after your busy and noisy day. 

 If however you love busy chatter and noise in the workplace as some do, maybe this would not be an ideal environment for you and you may want to reconsider beginning your massage therapist classes. 

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5 – Do You Have An Interest In The Human Body? 

This might sound like a strange question.  I recommend you ask it to yourself for 2 reasons. 

First the obvious one, in a massage therapist career you will spend many hours per week in personal contact with human bodies, not working near people like most jobs but actually touching their bodies.  While it is always non-sexual it certainly is intimate.   

From personal experience and from speaking with other therapists I have found that it really helps job satisfaction if you have a genuine interest in the human body and how it functions. 

Second, the not as obvious.  Many people seeking out schools for massage to begin their journey into a massage therapist career are attracted by the ‘art’ of massage.  And rightly so, the best therapists are certainly masters of their art.   

However don’t forget that massage is also a science, and in the course of undertaking your massage therapist classes you will do intensive study in the human body; anatomy, physiology, biomechanics, structure and function.  A genuine interest of the human body will help make this time not only more valuable but intensely enjoyable as well.  

Conclusion 

Firstly let me say that while answering each of the above questions with a resounding ‘YES’ would certainly make you a perfect candidate for a massage therapist career, it is NOT necessary to have a ‘perfect score.’ 

I would simply encourage you to take time to have a conversation with yourself where you ask these questions and most importantly, you answer them honestly. 

These questions are designed to clarify your thinking about whether a massage therapist career is right for you, and to reveal potential challenges that you may need to deal with either now or during the course of your massage therapist classes. 

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