My Massage Career - Part 2

My massage career - backtracking a bit now-

1998 - I had been studying Zentherapy since about 1994 going to trainings 3-4 times a year and getting intensive bodywork sessions on myself during training. In 1998, I was accepted to attend the advanced training in Zentherapy and I also decided to be the class organizer and do all the work to set up the training. It was 2 weekends back to back. In the middle of the week, I was hit by incapacitating vertigo - I couldn't get up without throwing up. (Is that TMI?) I was like that for a few weeks. No one could tell me what was wrong. I went to specialists, had an MRI, went to acupuncture, chiropractors and had lots of bodywork. It kept coming back on an off for the next 12 years or so.

It was incapacitating. I usually couldn't work a few weeks every 6 months or so. It took its toll on my massage business. In the middle of it, one of my friends wanted to go to massage school but she wanted me to create an apprenticeship program for her so that she didn't have to take all the science stuff as she had an extensive background in science. I was in the process of gathering all of the info that I needed to set the program up and for some reason never went through with it. What I did do is take all of the info and started a website- www.thebodyworker.com. It was a way for me to cope and get through my illness and deal with the burnout I was having not being able to work in massage. Back then it didn't make me any money. It was just a hobby - for fun. I took all the massage school notes and turned them into a website. As I learned more about websites, I found SBI! in about 2002. I started a site - www.massagetherapycareers.com and I was hooked. I wrote an ebook - The Massage Career Guide - which I have been selling online since then. My website started making me some money. I then learned of Google Adsense in about 2004 and didn't put the ads on my site at first thinking that no one clicks on ads. I didn't. I finally decided to test it and I put the ads on the top 100 pages of my site. The first month I made $100 so that was enough that I put them on all 1000 pages of that site and they continue to bring in residual income every month for me without even having to do anything with that site. In 2009, I sold www.massagetherapycareers.com and started this site - www.massage-career-guides.com. I am working on 5 different books for the massage profession and still doing massage 2 1/2 days a week.

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