Fitness Training - Loving What You Do

   I just read an article in a free daily newspaper called '24'. There was an interesting article called 'Does your job make the world a worse place?' by Joanne Richard. The article suggests that certain jobs make people  feel bad about how they earn their money. A caption of the story states that "Fast-food workers top list of those who feel guilty about their jobs." Obviously serving unhealthy food to people that are already on the road to poor health can weigh down a working person's conscience. Obesity is reaching critical levels with the North American population. Warning - feeding this building epidemic may cause guilt!
   There are other notorious jobs on the list of guilt inducing occupations:

• Casino dealers. Do they enable gambling addicts?
• Telemarketers. Bothering people during their precious down time.
• Loan collectors. Chasing after money from the poor, the unlucky or the deadbeats.
• Bartenders. Mongers of strong liquid swill.

  Not everyone in these professions actually feel remorse over it. To many of them, it is just a way to make ends meet and pay the bills. Some may be students in their first job. Others may even actually like what they do.

   Then there are the other jobs. They don't cause guilt but they do not exactly fill the employee with self-esteem. I can remember an office job that was so soul-sucking and so lacking in any semblance of self-actualization that it was an ordeal to get out of bed each morning. It was the trap known as the 'golden handcuffs' where you stuck around for the paycheck but just went through the motions mentally.  Of course, I escaped every quitting time into my world of sports and fitness. That kept me sane,......barely.
 
   I have stated often that FitnessTraining can be a difficult profession. Clients don't just throw money at you
because you are a fitness expert. It can be hard work. There are fitness club owners that may think of you as mere cannon fodder. You can be taken for granted. You can be underpaid. You often have to go beyond your comfort zone by hustling for business or requesting financial compensation. You can have difficult clients.
   However Fitness Trainers do not feel guilty! Fitness Trainers offer a service that will improve the lives of those that participate. Fitness Trainers do not feed unhealthy lifestyle habits. Fitness Trainers do not enable addiction. Even an exercise addict would be counselled by a good trainer to moderate their lifestyle.  (Of course, an unrepentant, problem exercise addict would be referred to an appropriate professional.)  Fitness Trainers earn their pay by enabling active and healthy lifestyle improvements!  Working towards a positive outcome is the key to career self-actualization.
Self-actualization is one of the building blocks of personal happiness.
   I would doubt that many Fitness Trainers feel guilty about helping people improve their lives.
If the unlikely event that they do, they are definitely in the wrong profession. For those people....
a career on Wall Street beckons.

Until next time,..........keep fit!

Little Bobby Strong

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