InkMan's Personal Masseur Interview

Last Updated: Oct 29, 11:25

- I started more than 20 years ago, and I'll keep going as long as I'm physically able.

- Do it because you enjoy helping people, not because you think you'll get rich. This is physical labor, and it can take a toll on your body. If you don't learn proper techniques & good body mechanics, you won't do as good a job and you'll end up injuring yourself at some point.

- I gain a great deal of satisfaction from helping my clients feel better, more so than any other job I've had. I want to help them feel better, and it makes me feel good when they tell me, "That was amazing!" or "The pain is gone!" or "I can move so much better now."

- I think that's a question for my clients.

- I love to travel! (I just wish it was easier to find someone to travel with.) I make an annual "pilgramage" to London to visit friends I made while living in the UK, as well as meet new models for photo shoots. In 2025, I'm planning some road trips to visit national parks that I haven't seen before.

- I want them to feel like I really care about helping them, because I do.

- If you really want to be good, you need training. And just getting the initial certification isn't enough; you need to update and learn new skills as you go along.

- I've been a technical writer/editor for most of my working life, after I left the Navy. I took up photography many years ago, and I learned to work with lights in a studio while living in the UK about 15 years ago. I love to shoot landscapes, but I also love to work with models, which I do every time I go back to London. I also knit scarves, shawls, and blankets for friends.

- Relaxed, refreshed, revitalized, rebalanced.

- I am genuinely interested in giving my clients a good massage, helping them with whatever physical issues they're experiencing. I can't promise to fix everything in a single session, but I promise a single session can get them on the road to recovery.

- I have regular clients, some of whom left other therapists after a single session with me, so I'd say that's success.

- I've gotten so much more satisfaction from helping people with massage than I ever have in my other career, so yes, I would miss it very much!

- The day I decided I wanted to pursue massage was when I helped a friend -- a police officer -- with a severe back issue. After 45 minutes, he was able to stand up straight for the first time in weeks, and said I had give him more relief from pain that his doctor or chiropractor had in 6 months.