10/12/2023
Being a GenXer I’ve witnessed some big changes in the workforce. Very few people get to a point in their career where they can say “I’ve been doing this job, or working for this company for 30 years”. I have achieved this milestone as a massage therapist. When I was in school the average career for a MT was five years! When I went back and took their advanced coursework 10 years later that number had gone up to 9 years.
I refer to massage as my first love. I’ve always had a knack for it. From working on my family as a kid, friends as a teenager/young adult & fellow soldiers in the army. My absence caused my mom to seek out a trained massage therapist which first planted the seed that this might be a career for me. I moved to Denver with my late husband after we got out of the Army in 1991. He wanted to go to art school to be a graphic designer. Less than one month after we arrived, there was a huge article in the Sunday Denver Post Lifestyle section. The headline said “The Harvard of Massage”. I started researching and talking to people. This school was legit and accredited, I could actually use my G.I. Bill to finance my schooling. So one year after moving to Colorado, I started training at what was then called the Boulder School of Massage Therapy, BSMT. I had some of the most talented teachers to ever grace the halls of that school and I am eternally grateful to them. Thirty years later I am still fascinated by my job and the clients I serve.
