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Originally Posted by StrengthCoach
Hi everybody,
I've been lurking on here for quite some time and I've been trying to be a personal trainer for the last year. I have a training background, but have really struggled with keeping a consistent client base. It seems like the amound of work I put into the business side of personal training, doesn't corespond with with amount of clients I'm training. It seems like one week I may have 20 to 30 paid sessions, and the next I'm struggling to get 10-15. How do trainers who have been around long term, psychologically deal with the ups and downs of basically owning your own business? Honestly, I don't know how much longer I can stay in the industry as a personal trainer.
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Heh... In reading this I question what drove me to do this for so damn long! 21 years of that constant up and down!
I just went through a pretty major career change, but the bus didn't just have to lose it's wheels for that to come about... It had to careen off the edge of the mountain down an impossibly high cliff.
Some years were better than others. Find a market that's not saturated with some decent population if you can.