Is being a PT a good career choice

Is being a PT a good career choice.

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If you like to suck dick and talk with middle age women about their children, yes

Only if you’ve made it as a fitness celebrity and can charge outrageous prices for half assed training and coaching on the side of your main source of income

I don't know man. He's got that applebees wojack smile on

Maybe if you're female a faggot. Fat women at my gym pay a handsome sum to the PT there. She charges $500/month and has 8 or 9 pigs following her around at all times.

Over here PTs who work at the gym make next to nothing but PTs who work by the hour make big dosh if they have steady clients.

Like two friends of mine have a PT who goes to their house and also gives them a nutrition plan and they pay him crazy money 3 times a week

That's also a stock photo and not a real PT.

If it's right for you, you will be happy doing it like any other job.

If it's not, well, you'll either get bored or be too annoyed with clients that you are unhappy.

Saw one of my local PTs getting talked to death by an old lady and he had to kiss her on the cheek after they parted ways.

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If you're in very good shape and have a good relationship with your local gym(s) and can adapt to different training styles then yes, you won't have to start from nothing and no references. You can be an affiliated pt or a free lancer but the former is recommended before you make a name for yourself. Unless you have a 10k+ following on your fitness ig account

yes, if you live in Hollywood

It can be a great side hustle if you're good at it or for something to do while finishing school, etc. It's kind of sketchy to do as your only or full-time gig just by the nature of the business. Sometimes you're busy; sometimes you're not, and if you'd like to have a solid floor to your income at all times it might not be for you.

I did it for like 4-5 years. After a while it's kind of draining watching people work out. It's one thing if there was something actually wrong with them-helping out someone who is disabled or overcoming an injury is one thing. I did feel good when I was doing that. But 9 out of 10 clients you'll get are just lazy and would've been totally fine on their own.

The other thing is, the stereotypes are true. Never let your wife or gf get a male trainer boys, you're just asking to get cucked. I was partly responsible for the demise of more than one relationship and after a while the guilt started to get to me.

No it's shit. It's a career chosen by people who are only good at exercising. You usually need some bullshit certification, which isn't hard, but takes time and costs money.

If you work for a gym you'll basically make minimum wage unless you have clients. If you have clients you get a teeny tiny fraction of their session fee. My sister makes around $30 an hour with clients at Equinox in Hollywood. And how many fucking clients can you really expect to schedule in a day? 3? Maybe 5?
You busy your ass husslin for clients and get $30/hr?

"Hurr Durr get your own clients/train movie stars and you'll make bank bro"- just because some people do well does not make it a good career choice. The fact that NBA players can make $100s of millions playing ball with sponsorships does not make basketball a good career choice. Most PTs make next to nothing

>But 9 out of 10 clients you'll get are just lazy and would've been totally fine on their own.
I considered becoming a PT myself but this stopped me from making it final. I'd get frustrated if I knew my clients were not trying, then turn around and complain about no progress.

>unless you have clients
Uh dude that is the whole point of being a trainer, yes. If you work at a gym and don't have clients or are just starting out they usually give you "floor hours" or whatever they'll call them but the goal is not to stay with just that, obviously you have to build a clientele base.
> 3 maybe 5 clients a day
If you work at big or busy enough place and you develop a rep you can get like 8 a day without too much trouble. (4 AM, break most of the day, 4 more in evening). And if you get most of them to work out with you 2-3x a week (which they should be doing anyway) it's not bad.
If you're in school or have another job or just plain want a day off, you can load certain people on certain days and give yourself time off whenever you want/need. That's why I said (I'm ) it's a great gig if you're in school or also working on something else.

>you can get like 8 a day without too much trouble

Lol absolutely no way.

My friend is a certified PT from some shitty place in FL. He's always broke and is DYEL as fuck even though hes been lifting for ten years. The only thing he has going for himself is that he lost some weight.

Could've been his grandma.

My gf has been bugging me to take her to the gym with me. Now I'm thinking of asking local PT bros for some routine advice, but I always see them teach chicks retarded conditioning shit and maybe RDLs if the girl is lucky.

Only if you know how to secretly sabotage or manipulate people into either being permanent students with no self awareness or socialites with active "I compete" pages and social media hubs with pictures of you eating donuts etc.

it's a good job, but as a career? no.
when looking for a career path, you need to ask yourself what the highest position you can get by going that that path is. where would being a PT ultimately lead you? not that high, which means not that high of a pay as well. i guess you can become a celebrity trainer or some shit, but i wouldn't bank on those odds.

>you need to ask yourself what the highest position you can get by going that that path is
le ladder meme, the real redpill is being independent

I'm a fool, you're right

so starting a business? that's just another career path then