Massage Therapy Job Center
One of the most popular sections on my website is the massage therapy job center where people can get more information on how to find or create their ideal massage job.
I am also working on an Ebook on the same topic that will have much more information. One thing I am starting to see from interviewing massage therapists who go out and get jobs is that they just think of it as that - a job even though they love doing the massage part.
It seems that what you think about work and jobs is created at a very early age from watching parents or primary caretakers. We take on these beliefs about work without ever questioning them.
Jobs just like anything else really are a great learning environment to discover more about your unconscious unmet needs of childhood. We project our unmet needs on significant others and this also includes money and jobs.
One of the things that comes up often is the idea that people feel entitled to being taken care of in a job. They look for job security and think that just by showing up and doing what they are asked to do that they will find job security. Part of the problem becomes that you will start feeling resentful of what you are being asked to do unless you really love doing what it is that they ask you to do.
At a job you give up your own needs and aspirations to become a part of someone else’s dreams and aspirations. In order to feel whole people need to be connected to their own dreams and aspirations. Finding a place to work that you can share that dream is an important part of finding a massage therapy job but most people just take what they can find rather than finding what they want to take.
What do you want in a job in massage? Why do you want to work for someone else’s dream? What are your beliefs about work and finding a job? What do you expect from a massage employer?
Answering some of these questions will help give me more insights for my Ebook so please feel free to comment truthfully or email me if you don’t want to post things here.
June 8th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Security in a job invites a certain level of dependency. And dependency is reinforced by stroking of the ego from a paternal employer. While easy to blame an employer, dependency found in workers probably originated back at an earlier stage in life as you have mentioned.
Dependency relationships were learned back in the childhood stage. Parents love ‘em because they allow easier parental control, and makes the job of parenting easier. Kids go along with the program eventually by classical conditioning. Clean your room- you know you are getting a cookie.
Dependency works. It allows people to survive. Problem is, one day you wake up when you’re 40 and realize you’re not happy with life beause you’re owned by the MAN, and you’ve built your house on a foundation dependent on someone else other than yourself. Your hapiness is essentially at their whim.
Still, it’s your bed, you’ll have to sleep in it. Just most of us won’t be accountable to ourselves, and blame our unhappiness on others, many times our jobs/boss.