Any Massage Therapists in the house?

[Herbmama]

So I'm thinking about starting massage school when my lil cub starts full day kindergarten this fall.
Any of you folk been through a massage program? I'm a little concerned about the clinic work load and scheduling since I'm a single parent. The actual class hours are PERFECT for our fall schedule but I'll have to do a 100 hour of practicals in order to sit for the national exam.
It's also a BIG chunk of money and I'm wondering if it's going to be worth the investment...back before I had the lil one I would have done it just for the education, now days I have to look at it as a career move. So I'm wondering if we got any working therapists out there who can give me some insight.

Blessings Y'all

[LIBRA]

I could use some insight too!! I want to do the same, massage therepy or herbalist something in those fields but I work full time and have a 3 yr old, so I have no advice for you and I am thinkin I'll have to wait till he's older anyway, hope ya dont mind if I steal any advice givin to you!! :smilie_wa

[BandAide]

okay... okay...

I don't have any advice either... sorry!

But I want to wish you luck, most certainly~!

Also, I'm not really certain what your financial situation is, but many programs offer a lot of help to people. Single mom's are a shoe in for financial aid. If you haven't looked into the aid you can recieve, you should. Almost my entire college career was free. (Grad school is a whole different story though.)

One hundred hours isn't a lot!!!! It IS if you are working on top of it! That's where it all gets tricky. You would have to miss time with your son, but maybe for only a few weeks. If you can do it all in one swoop than you can get it done in less than three weeks, right? Soooooooooo... maybe you can hire a sitter to pick him up from Kindergarten those weeks?

I'm sure you've thought of all of this yourself...

I'm interested to hear what you discover... so keep us posted!

Peace!

[Herbmama]

Libra, if your thinking about a "career move" I can't recomend herbalism. Don't get me wrong...I went to herb school myself and loved every minute of it. Herbal medicine is just a hard skill to market unless you live in a highly progressive fairly metropolitan area.
Most of the Herbalists I've know who make a living are childless and poor, which I was about before I got knocked up. My plan was to do herbal first aid (the specality I studied) at protests and Rainbow Gatherings and the like. I was planning my trip to seatle to do first aid at the WTO protests when I found out I was pregnant...and my plans changed quickly :p.
I dunno maybe you can make it work, I just know that other than selling lotions and tea at festivals and crafts fairs I'm never really found a great market for my education...course herbal first aid might be just a bit too out there ...

Bandaid, thanks for the support and ideas! I'll let you know as I figure it out. Hopefully I can help out some of the other mama's while I'm working my way through it.