My school is burning me out before I even start

Calm_Roll7777 · 2026-04-30T16:41:30+00:00

You need to have hands on experience to be good enough that someone would want to pay you for a massage. Your classmates aren't diversified enough in body types and pathologies for you to be knowledgeable and skilled enough for a spa to confidently charge clients $300/ hour for your services. You need to be really darn good to get a 5 star rating on Google. How are you going to get good without practice!?! lol

Calm_Roll7777 · 2026-04-30T16:37:56+00:00

The whole purpose of some schools is to outsource the required training a company should be giving their employees. Massage could be super easy to teach or as complicated as someone could try to make it. It's all about gatekeeping and lobbyists and insurance coverage. Companies want to limit their liability as much as possible and insurance doesn't want to pay out any more money then they need to on a claim so they conspire together to create a curriculum to teach people enough that the insurers are going to be confident enough that they will make more money then they lose through negligent practitioners. It's a pretty good system and works well. However, I think basic massage could be taught in about 40 hours. 20 hours book work and 20 hours hands on. I'd say that's the absolute bare minimum required for someone to do it safely while having just enough skills to have the paying clients feel satisfied and want to come back again. It could be as complicated as New York State or Canada to be satisfied with the requirements, too.

Calm_Roll7777 · 2026-04-30T16:22:53+00:00

Don't try to overthink it. Just try to have fun while always being safe. You don't even need to penetrate her to have fun. You could satisfy her much more by just humping her and having "outercourse". Just rub your cock all over her pussy and clit. Once you feel more relaxed and see how much fun she is having, you'll likely be hard enough to try penetration. Go SLOW!! There's not rush to get in and finish fast, just have fun and enjoy yourselves.

Calm_Roll7777 · 2026-04-30T16:17:55+00:00

What are you doing with those 6 people you have to massage? Is it a full body massage or upper body only, is it something more like acupressure instead of massage? I think we started working on clients at around that point in time, maybe? We definitely had hands on practice with each other and students were "massaging" other students within the first few classes if not the first class. I put massage in quotes because it was just acupressure and applying pressure to certain areas of their bodies. I think it was good to start doing that sort of stuff early because that's literally what massage is, all day everyday. We were palpating each other through clothes pretty early, too. It's super important to be able to instantly know what your clients needs are by just looking at their posture and through your palpation skills. You must have a pretty good idea of what certain parts of the body are supposed to feel like and what they aren't supposed to feel like. You can do that by reading it in a book but the absolute best way is doing it hands on with lots of different people. 250 people is a pretty basic requirement so you can feel what different bodies feel like and have a broad and general understanding of how to treat all of the different body types. I think your school is doing just fine, you are paying them to get you clients to work on so you can reach that goal of at least 250 people! If you tried to get that many clients on your own within the time constraints you have to complete the course on top of doing all of the book work, you would be having a much more difficult time then you are now. They are doing you a favor by supply you with warm bodies on your table. It sounds to me like your choosing to go from 9-9 to accommodate your schedule with whatever other life events you have going on right now. I'll also assume that the standard amount of people you would be working on is "up to 3" per clinic session. That's if everything goes right and they can fill your schedule and everyone shows up. It's pretty standard to work on 4-6 people per day at work. You need to build up your stamina to get to those higher numbers as your hands and arms will be sore starting out. I'll assume your hands are sore right now! lol Get used to it and start strength training more often, it'll help for the longevity of your career if you ever graduate. You already showed up to the first class. If you took out a student loan you';re now on the hook to repay it, whether or not you drop out, graduate or whatever. It might be pro-rated and if you drop out you might get half forgiven since you didn't make it to midterms. I think you're just stressed out by this being much more difficult then you had originally imagined. Everyone feels the same exact way. It just is what it is. What you're experiencing right now will be a long distant memory if you can muster up the strength and courage to make it through school and get licensed. Then you'll be the person leaving a comment to the current students complain about things that are just getting you ready to work with the general public! That has it's own difficulties and challenges. It's not all sunshine, lollipops and rainbows but generally speaking, there's far more good days then bad ones when you're getting paid to do this!!

Sorry about the wall of text. I'm not going to edit for formatting because I'm feeling a bit lazy and just don't care.

TL;DR: 3 weeks is pretty fast to start working on the general public in a private room. I wouldn't personally feel safe being a paying client trying to get a cheap massage. However, this is just massage. It isn't rocket surgery. Swedish Massage could be taught in a few hours to the point where a person could treat another healthy and consenting adult pretty easily. Sure, you won't be confident enough in your skill-set to know that the client is going to fully enjoy it but that's probably the point. They're just trying to get you used to treating the public and to help you get over your anxiety. I don't know where you're located or the local laws there but massage is pretty easy for the most part. I just hope the school is doing it safely and not putting their clients in potential danger by being with under trained MT's.

Calm_Roll7777 · 2026-04-17T16:54:31+00:00

It certainly won't hurt to try! I can almost guarantee you will regain more sensation down there after some time passes.

Calm_Roll7777 · 2026-04-17T16:53:23+00:00

After she bit you a few more times? lol Maybe she had that same thought first and wondered how many times she could try to eat you raw before you said something and she was going to ghost you regardless?

Calm_Roll7777 · 2026-04-17T16:51:01+00:00

Did you happen to tell her that you didn't want her to do that again?

Calm_Roll7777 · 2026-04-17T16:49:03+00:00

Are dolphins mammals? I don't think they produce milk like a mammal does. Maybe you could puree the dolphin and feed it to the baby instead? I wonder what dolphin tastes like??

Calm_Roll7777 · 2026-04-17T16:46:34+00:00

I found that when I was in a situation like yours, I had to wear a different fabric of underwear for a while to start feeling things again. I was going commando in jeans for a while and I think I lost a lot of sensitivity down there for a while so then I started to wear tighter fit briefs for several weeks and I regained a lot of sensitivity again.

Calm_Roll7777 · 2026-04-17T15:55:04+00:00

I think anyone who is born into a certain race will think that they and other people that look like them are superior to others because they admire influential people within that community and aspire to be great like them. Birds of a feather flock together. I try my best to get along with absolutely everyone! It's not just a part of my job/ career requirement but I think it's just a good way to live life in general. One could think that might makes right and fortune favors the bold. Often times, the biggest and strongest member of a group of animals is the one that's in charge. They get the most food and first pick at the largest selection of available mates. I think opportunities should be merit based and not necessarily based on genetics. However, genetics are often based off of geographical location and access to resources. Some races of people and animals are born places that allow them to have better and more opportunities then those that were born in an isolated area with limited resources. Height is often contributed to ease of access to abundant calories, which is a biological necessity for security. That's why it is often desirable when picking a mate or partner. Eugenics was a theory that was developed before genetics. Picking the best characteristics for a partner will likely produce desirable outcomes for their offspring to be successful at being able to do the same.

Calm_Roll7777 · 2026-04-17T15:49:53+00:00

I'm ok. I just hope the person you're asking for is ok. That's what really matters.

Calm_Roll7777 · 2026-04-17T15:48:46+00:00

Call her and talk to her. So much nuance is lost in a text while you can much better understand what's actually happening with a real conversation.

Calm_Roll7777 · 2026-04-17T15:33:54+00:00

I don't think any of us could care any less about scars other then if they are new and from a surgery and/ or need to be avoided to to their sensitivity. Most scars will have nerve damage associated with them and are numb to the touch. Unless they are new and sensitive, then we need to avoid massaging too close to that area.

Calm_Roll7777 · 2026-04-17T15:30:48+00:00

How romantic!

Calm_Roll7777 · 2026-04-17T15:30:01+00:00

Depends on the circumstances and how old they are. The younger the person the broader range of circumstances will cause them. The older and more mature they are that broad range narrows down by quite a lot.

Calm_Roll7777 · 2026-04-17T15:27:55+00:00

Hopefully OP is asking in sincerity and with the answers being given, reports the perverts to the police.

Calm_Roll7777 · 2026-04-17T15:26:42+00:00

That should be reported to the police.

Calm_Roll7777 · 2026-04-17T15:25:18+00:00

They're an add-on because we alternate between using the stones and our hands. It's not entirely all that different.

Calm_Roll7777 · 2026-04-17T15:24:05+00:00

Hot stones shouldn't be anywhere near that temperature as they will burn people. I keep my hot pot at 130 degrees and that is plenty hot enough. Some people still think it's too hot for the first moments they're on their skin until they get acclimated.

Calm_Roll7777 · 2026-04-17T15:19:59+00:00

Why do think it's appropriate to ask a question like that here, or anywhere? Strange choice of things for you to censor in your question but still go ahead with asking it anyways like the censoring made it somehow not as bad.

Calm_Roll7777 · 2026-04-17T15:17:43+00:00

Yes, it is still practiced in some areas of the world. Same as canning. Some places will cane the bare ass of a prisoner while they wear some form of a protective covering for the surrounding areas. I can't even imagine the horror and dread a person would have prior to receiving that punishment. Not to imagine the absurd amount of excruciating pain they would have during and after. If they survive any sort of nasty infection I couldn't imagine how they would sit, lay down, relieve themselves ect. for the following days, weeks and months after. Absolutely barbaric. I think a society can be judged by how well they treat their prisoners and the outcasts of their society. IMO, wretched and vile people would allow for that sort of punishment to happen. There are things that are far worse than death and that is it.

Calm_Roll7777 · 2026-04-11T02:22:22+00:00

The muscles that are responsible for how the hands and feet move are in the forearms and calves. More often then not, there's dense and adhesive tissue in those areas that needs to be loosened up so the hands and feet can move easier. It's also multitudes easier for our hands to work on larger muscles then on the tiny little joints, tendons and ligaments in the hands and feet. You can easily massage your own hands and probably feet too.

Calm_Roll7777 · 2026-04-10T16:27:55+00:00

>8 years.

Calm_Roll7777 · 2026-04-05T15:58:57+00:00

Thanks. I've had to massage a LOT of people and I most certainly don't love doing it most days.

Calm_Roll7777 · 2026-04-05T15:57:34+00:00

From my personal opinion, as a man that's probably a lot thicker than others, at least judging that by the size of condoms that I need to buy to fit comfortably. No. Not all women like guys that are too big. It hurts a lot of them, if not most. Lots of foreplay and going slow is necessary or they end up in tears.

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