I started out my morning with a phone call from the owner of a very nice, quaint, well established
salon & day spa. She had advertised a spa room rental on Craigslist, and I called her on Saturday. I was so excited to hear back from her first thing this morning! We had a great talk, and I really liked her! I'm going to go in tomorrow evening and check it out. I'm really positive about this, because I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about how this is all going to work.
I would love to have 3-5 clients at a time for Massage/Doula Services. But that amount of clients wouldn't be enough to necessitate me renting a room to work in. That is enough clients, however, that I wouldn't want to work solely from home. I'm hoping to generate some word of mouth business, and I'm just not comfortable having strangers come into my home, or me go to others' homes that I don't know personally.
After talking to the owner, it sounds very promising. Not only would I have a key, I set my own hours, can have my own clients, but they are also turning people away on a weekly basis, because they only have one other therapist who is working there. So I would be getting business from them, as well! That would more than pay for the cost of a room rental and be a great opportunity for me to make a nice income.
The only last thing to take care of is finding someone to watch my kids. I'm looking for a married, no kids adult, or a college student. I'm hoping that just twice or 3 times a week, maybe in the morning one day, and during naptime until Roland comes home from work the other days. I'll schedule all of my appointments during when the nanny/sitter will be here. It still just really makes me stressed thinking of leaving my kids. But I know this is something I need to do, and there isn't a job that I could get working for someone else that would be as flexible, nor would I love it as much.
I'll be getting my NC state license this month, I hope. For some reason, maybe because I've lived in so many states, I thought that they only required the National Certification, I thought I read that somewhere once. But when I checked this morning, I do need to apply and pay to be licensed here. Oops! That'll take about a month, and I hope by then, I'll have everything else lined up, so I can jump right in!
Stay tuned...I need to figure out business cards, start leaving pamphlets at doctors offices, and just get out there in the world and promote myself--- VERY much out of my comfort level! Wish me luck :)
Alaina
