| Answer: Massage and spa therapist careers have a wide variety of options. Those who indulge in massage and spa therapist careers can work as self employed practitioners, independent contractors, salaried or commissioned employees and in private or group offices. Hence they get an opportunity to practice in a variety of settings. Massage and spa therapists, who want to indulge in business enterprises, can open their own clinics. After owning a clinic, the practitioner or the owner of the clinic, can also hire additional practitioners. Private practice, hence, is the ideal thing for therapists, who have a natural inclination for setting up their business. For massage therapists, spas are turning out to be huge sources of revenue. Several high-end spas have packages, including massage therapy. If you are retainer with a spa, being a massage therapist, can prove to be extremely profitable. On the other hand in chiropractors' and doctors' offices, massage therapy complements traditional medicine and also chiropractic medicine. For healing purposes too, massage has proved to very efficient. Due to that vast employment opportunities are available for massage therapists at the rehabilitation centers.Even in health clubs and hospitals, the opportunities are vast. If you are part of a high end club, many opportunities would be available to you. IF one can manage to get a break in one of the sports team or sports medicine clinics, it can prove to be a huge break. Sports teams or sports medicine clinics usually can afford to have huge budgets and can easily accommodate a therapist on full time basis or on retainer.
So you need to look for jobs in health clubs, clinics, hospitals or even can have your owm set up.
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