Jobs like personal trainer, garden designer……

[FlamingoHels]

Obviously there’s exceptions to every rule, but on the whole are they just for well off women / women with wealthy partners who don’t really need to earn much?

I know one PT and one GD (acquaintances rather than close friends) and both don’t appear to have many actual clients / paid jobs although they are very active on social media and create an illusion of being busy. Both appear good at what they do and have good marketing skills from what I can tell.

Was chatting about this to a friend who is herself looking for a career change away from the corporate sector, and she said she’d actually love to do something along the lines of PT or GD (she’s very sporty and outdoorsy) but she dismissed both of these jobs as hobby jobs for housewives. Friend isn’t rich and needs to earn a living wage.

Is anyone here a PT or GD or know one closely?

Here personal trainers run about $80/ hour if you book directly with them. Definitely not a ‘housewife job’.

You can also get on with the municipality that starts at $35-40/hr 7 hr day with full benefits and pension… teach a fitness class or two, do a few private training sessions.

its also crazy high demand, nearly impossible to find a PT taking clients. So I guess in that sense you could do as many hours you want while ‘housewife-ing’.

I think this is dismissive of jobs which are in demand, and needed .Obviously PT are involved with fitness and well being ,They would surely have to have a working knowledge ?"Housewife jobs" seem a contradiction in terms .Surely a HW wouldnt have a job if she was a HW anyway!

My ex was a horticulturist working with large offices and events in London, doing sustainability projects and similar. He was not a househusband. My PT works full time as sole trader and supports his wife and two kids. He is not a social media bunny but his books are full

Personal Trainers are often very busy and might be employed by a gym or similar, so I wouldn't consider it a "hobby job".

Garden designer, depends what you mean, if they actually do the gardening then they can be very well paid but it's hard graft in all weathers. People that come to rich people's houses and draw pictures of where to put the gazebo, it's going to take a long time to get that business off the ground. In a COL crisis, not many people are going to be investing in a garden designer.

It's not that those types of jobs NEVER make money, it's that you have to be prepared to do a lot of free/cheap work and make very little or a loss at the start to build up your reputation and for word of mouth to start spreading, and economic conditions have to be right
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The female PT I know is single so I don't think so!

I'm a strength and conditioning coach

I only work part time but I'm head hunted by successful sport clubs to coach their teams

So whilst I don't earn loads I am good and very selective about what jobs I take on

I have two kids and quality time with them is paramount so I see myself as very successful

A job I love that I'm excellent at and there for my kids

I also have time to do my own training and compete at a high level

The only measure of success isn't just how much you earn and I resent being dismissed as a 'hobby' job

My PT is fricking amazing!! She runs live workouts on her website, works and does classes in a gym and then does individual PT.

I have no idea how much she earns but I don't think she's doing badly, she's a brilliant business woman and knows how to use social media to boost her business.

I admire her as a business woman, a trainer and as fitness inspiration and feel lucky to know her.

I'm a therapist and probably earn similar to my PT, I'm on a slightly higher hourly rate I guess.

I earn about 50k for 20 hours a week work that I do around my kids.

I was a personal trainer in my early twenties and I worked hard for a living. I had a decent amount of regular clients and I earned enough wage to rent my own flat in a nice town, pay for my own car, and do other things that women in their early twenties do.

I know I could go back to it now and make a comfortable living in my late thirties, but I suspect I don’t need as much money as some do to feel “comfortable.”

I was single then and I’m single now.

LOL I made the opposite switch!
My father was an Olympic weight lifter and my mother an Olympic gymnast.
I served as a fitness instructor in the military (not UK), which included 3 years intensive training in civilian academy and military institute.

Most PT's have somewhere between 1-5% of my knowledge.

I started as a PT and just quickly realised it's a popularity contest and has nothing to do with biomechanics and exercise science but it's like:

5% Getting people to move (any movement at all, regularly)
95% Building a brand, community politics and psychological manipulation on clients

Many times, I would get a young dude who is skinny and wants to attract ladies and scare dudes off by being puffy.
And I would see that their body is just not built for bodybuilding and I would explain to them why the pictures they are seeing are unrealistic for them.

Then, they leave me and pass many PT's until they find the one who pushed them PEDs/AAS/SARMs...
Few years and torn rotator cuffs later, they are a wreckage of a man and have mental trauma linked with exercise...

Ladies are a bit different. They look for PTs that agree with them on their insecurities (?!?) and make them sweat and hurt a lot.
If they don't feel knackered after the workout, they think they got ripped off during the PT session...

Even though 50% of body-building exercise is making sure you do the minimum to signal your body to make changes... You aren't supposed to hit your limits...
And then what happens is that the body has mechanisms to force you to stop (symptoms similar to depression, narcolepsy, low testosterone, etc...).

• Which is why most gym cards go vastly underutilized...

I couldn't rip off people and I was never a populist.
So I moved to IT and now I am ripping off corporations, instead :D