u/luthien730

I have been a massage therapist for almost 9 years. I have definitely experienced my ups and downs with this career and unfortunately, I’ve experienced way too many downs and I have completely burnt out and fallen out of love with what I do. I have experienced a myriad of sexual assault and sexual harassment, which unfortunately is one of the main reasons that I just completely checked out. Over the past four years I have had three automobile accidents, my last one I was T-boned by somebody who ran a stop sign and destroyed my car and caused permanent injury to my body. I am chronically in pain and my upper back is constantly in pain. I have also been going through some health issues over the last few years, I got diagnosed with meneires disease 17 years ago and more recently diagnosed with low ferritin which makes me feel
Like death. I am working on that but having a physical job plus low ferritin has been…. A lot to deal with .

On top of everything else, I live in a very well populated city where Massage jobs are available, but I just absolutely cannot stand the way that things are run. I am absolutely disgusted with the Massage industry and how they take advantage of us. I am currently working for a place that is technically 1099 but the more I stay here the more little things are starting to fall through the cracks and they are taking advantage of me and doing a lot of things that I am now starting to not appreciate. I just recently found out that one of the office managers was complaining that I canceled on her during a period of time where I was extremely sick earlier this year. I was sick for about six weeks and was on doctors leave and state disability and the office manager decided to gossip and complain about me canceling on her so many times during this time.. and I’m just sitting here going you knew that I was sick. I don’t understand why you kept putting yourself on my schedule. Hearing that is just the nail in the coffin and I am just doing what I can to get out of this industry, but for some reason, I just do not get callbacks from jobs that are not Massage Therapy. I have revamped my entire résumé, I’ve even taken the word massage therapist off of my résumé. I cannot get out of massage therapy, and I am practically clawing my way to get out. I am exhausted, I am burnt out, I am so tired of being taken advantage of by these employers, and my body is just done.

I need so words of advice because my therapist has noticed I’m slipping into apathy.

I’ll start off with I love my office. I’ve been with them for about 1 1/2 years. They do still do things though that baffles me. For instance, our ew patient deal to me ( maybe this is normal elsewhere) is ridiculous. It’s a few 15 min massage. Client is undressing and de robing. The client retention from this is about non existent because everyone wants the quick fix and doesn’t want to pay. I’m starting to get requests like cupping and pre-natal with 15 min and I’ve been explaining how that’s not doable….and they are getting scheduled anyway …which as you can imagine…doesn’t make the client want to reschedule and is frustrating me because I’m not being listened to. I’m forced to explain how I can’t do much but can do what I can and it ends up making me look bad and they are unsatisfied. I will say, however, they are offered to pay the difference to a 30 min and most people decline.

Not only that, the way they are being scheduled is taking up valuable space for my 30 minute or 1 hour slots and is making it so I have a huge 45 min gap and people can’t schedule a full session.

Am I being unreasonable to think 15 min is a silly NP deal for massage ? I have an email drafted to send to my office because ive had 3 this week and it totally screwed my schedule over

I got turmeric roll earlier this year and it was a godsend only to find out it was discontinued. Went in a hunt and their app has several cleansers labeled as “new” and yet I can not find them in store at all and this has been on going for months at this point. I finally broke down and blind bought blueberry roly poly online and had it delivered. It’s ok, but just not what I’m looking for. I’m almost out and now , blueberry is not only not even available for online. I’m not a huge fan of the OG cleansers and I’m getting so frustrated that I can’t find their cleansers in store or online. I do use the turmeric face oil and love love that but I do a double cleanse and I’m just….. at my wits end with this. I tried to find out if there’s a supply chain issue but there no reason every single store should be out of stock of your brand new cleansers for month now.

I love most of the flankers with the OG and Magnolia being my absolute favorite. I have them all except rose which just reads a little too clean on me. I saw a few of peoples opinions on Nectar and decided to try it in store today. It almost swayed me from not trying it because I saw so many negative reviews.

I am quite surprised how many people dislike it! its beautiful!!!! It’s not a bright peach and it’s not summery which I honestly prefer. It’s a bit more jammy at first spray and the dry down is woody and sweet. I think it’s stunning. The associate today did say just like the others that it’s made to blend in with your skin so it’s going to smell different for everyone and their chemistry .

I bought the travel size today and can’t wait for the bigger bottles. The bottles are beautiful too.