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Don't let others judge and define you, Home office, Home office and Professional can coexist, Jury Duty, love what you do, low overhead, Professional, Reschedule Everything
Awe man about the same time I realized I hadn’t written yet today, I also realized I hadn’t called in to see if I have to report for jury duty! Damn it, I have to report at 8am! I will do my Civic duty and go in tomorrow! Boo!
Today was a productive busy day of massage work, business networking and soul searching. Am I in the right place? I think I am and this is why, I met two great clients from a marketing gig I have done in the past year. They both seemed to be pleased with their appointment and one rebooked for two appointments for the following two months, the other didn’t have work schedule but said she’d call! It felt right like it was affirmation that I am in the right place and that I can build a home based practice.
I love working from home. I just want to stop getting “the look” from professionals when I talk about my home office. I feel judged when I tell networking partners that I work from home. As if I can’t be professional seeing clients in a home office. When I originally decided to be an LMT (Licensed Massage Therapist) I originally envisioned my work as a massage therapist, was me working from home. As a mom of Middle School Kids it is a perfect situation. “Own it Ruby! Stop letting others define and judge you.” Now if I could fill my books with paying clients that would be even better!
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So it has been a long week. I haven’t wrote since last Tuesday! Last week I spoke of things that happened that I didn’t want to talk about yet. Well then more things happened and happened so fast that I didn’t have time to stop and write. I have been overwhelmed this last week. the weekend previous to last Tuesday (the last time I blogged) I had looked at a new office to rent for my massage office. I have been contemplating private practice for a long time. I heard about this space available and decided to talk to the owner and then looked at it two weekends ago. I decided by Tuesday that I would talk to my boss and tell him I found a place. If he made an offer for me to rent the space I was in I would consider it but I was pretty sure I was done dealing with scheduling issues, done paying too much for rent on uncapped commissions and ready to have my own office.
Today I worked on the computer to complete a correspondence CEU course to keep my Lisence and insurance current. I am an AMTA member so I have to do more than double what the state requires but it is due soon. The Hubs also did his 8 hours of CEUs today in about an hour. It was a course he has taken before and his is free and it took him and hour to get 8CEUs. I am required to do 12 CEU hours a year, his is required 8 hours every 2 years. My 2 hour course cost me $60, his was free. So not fair! For the AMTA we have to submit every 4 years. I have about 16 hours more that I have to do before the end of the month. I would prefer to do live courses but it is hard for me to get the time and spend the money. Nothing has appealed to me that worked with my schedule that was not sold out. I get 1 CEU per hour in a live class so a weekend class I can get up to 24 hours for a three day weekend and it will cost anywhere from $300-$500 some are up to $800 or more depending on the specialty! It is so expensive but a necessary evil! It usually is good knowledge and I am grateful for the education I get out of every class I take. The state requires a certain amount of live classes as well as a certain amount of ethics training. I need to take time off work to get it in and it costs me money to do it. Sometimes I learn a service I can raise my fees for but usually it is a new technique that adds to my career but not to my paycheck. It costs me about $1000 or more a year to be licensed. It takes me more than 2 weeks to make that.
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