A friend's daughter is doing O-levels now and is consulting various friends on the advice about options available for future fields.

Based on the interests of the young girl in the field of health, what would be a good field to enroll into professionally that doesn't involve a lot of studies, provides a balance of moderate earnings with regulated working hours.

Any comments about:

Naturopathy
Homeopathy
Chiropractor
Osteopath
Cranio sacral masseur
Psychologist

or any other field.

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All the fields you have listed require intensive, ongoing, expensive study; and payback is commensurate with effort as well as investment (eventually).

So none would be appropriate.

Let's see: limited study, lots of pay, limited work hours?

Why is it not surprising you would be making this inquiry?

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Well, actually was looking for a response from a learned poster

Thanks for the Freudian slip of "lots of pay" Poor you

Btw, most women here in east want moderate working hours so that they can have a balance and maintain their households too, unlike "career women".

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Any of the massage fields would be good. They take about two years of study verses a four year undergraduate degree plus four more years of specialized medical study. She can set her own hours and can even work out of her home. A general massage course and licensing should come first. Then after she has a year or so of experience, she can go on for additional workshops and study to learn cranial sacral, shiatsu, St. John, etc. The more techniques she knows, the more modalities she can offer, based on the needs of the client and the better she will be. It usually takes about two years to build up the practice to the point that she would get enough referrals to keep busy.

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Shirley Reischman

Just to correct you on one point. It is called Cranio Sacral Therapy and it is not massage at all. Cranio Sacral Therapy has its roots in Osteopathy, although massage therapists do practice it, but never at the same time.

Perhaps you need to go and re-read my introduction to Cranio Sacral Therapy that I posted under the Osteopathy section of this board?

I understand that cranio-sacral therapy is not massage, but in most states in order to do it, one must first be licensed either as a massage therapist or an osteopathic physician. Since becoming an osteopath is a minimum of eight years and massage therapy is two, I suggested becoming licensed as a massage therapist.

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Shirley Reischman

Shirley, thanks a lot for the details. This is the exact info that I was looking for.

Secondly, NH was pointing out the correction for me. Thanks NH, have noted the point now.

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