Making a living with 'raw'???

[kashendel]

I've almost completed my undergrad. degree in Community and Human Services. The closer I get to completing it though, the more I think I'll never really use it. My hearts not really in it. My daily job of being an Optician is not what my heart is in either and my boss expects me to manage my own store upon graduation in May!!!
I dont want to get stuck in a job that my heart isn't in just for a lot of stress and a semi-decent pay check, ya know? What I really want to do is to help people realize their goals, their potential and be healthy and stress-free. I dont know many people who have been able to make a living through alternative healing though. Any personal experiences? Advice? How does one get started? Should I pursue a graduate degree with Clayton College???? Then what? All I can really think of to do with such an alternative health degree would be to start my own practice, so to speak. I need to get a vision before I'm too old and stuck with responsibilities. I already have a son but no house just yet so I'm not entirely cornered yet.

[Veganforlife]

Wow - what a goal to pursue. I don't have any advice but to go for it. Go with what is in your heart. It's a calling... ;)

[sport]

I suggest that you try it part time and build it up if you can before you throw caution to the wind and give up your security.

[rawbeliever]

Maybe you could find someone who's already doing this, whose vision speaks to you, and "apprentice" with them.

[rawpriestess]

I do alot of things as I am self employed, and the one thing I can tell you is this.

do what you love, and love what you do,

by this I mean, do the raw thing as your passion, but also work somewhere that you can make enough money to keep your bills paid.

being self employed leaves not alot of room for anything else, I'm serious, yes, I love what I do, and yes, I make a good living, and Yes, I help alot of people, and Yes, I can take the day off anytime I want, but you know what, I have no social life, my bf left me because he said that we never do anything fun anymore, well, he's right, every trip was a selling or buying trip, evey day was a work day, now don't get me wrong, I did ask him if he wanted to take a vacation, and he would always say, "who will look after the gardens, and the animals?"

so it is no ones fault, but I can tell you this, you don't have free time, when you are self employed, your entire life is about clients, customers, selling buying, ebay, websites, copiers, computers, fax machines, marketing, PR people, advertising, etc.

When you work for someone else, you at least will always have your bills paid, and be able to do what you love because you love it, not because you HAVE to.

So, please go into this with understanding.

[dreamrawalwz]

I'm a few years behind you, but I'm in a similar position. I'm majoring in psychology, but I don't want to become a psychologist. I don't want to get my Masters in it...maybe I do I don't know. I really want to work with hollistic/alternative nutrition and health counseling as well as personal training. I REALLY want to go to a school in NY. It's 8 months long only on weekends. If money will allow it I'm going there next year after I get my associates here and the year I return I'll transfer to James Madison to complete my psychology degree.

[Dimond]

I've been self-employed for years and never had it take over my whole entire life. Yes, you can work much harder/longer hrs-especially when first starting out and when you're passionate about it. But it shouldn't be all that you do. There is a way to have balance. I tend to like to keep things simple in life, including with business. I've noticed that a lot of businesses don't offer the best service/products because they're too big, offering too much or the employees have too much to do. This is why I choose to keep everything as simple as possible with business. You can make a good living, you just need to be smart about it.

[chilove]

Hi there,

If you are good in math and science you could become a naturopathic doctor. Please don't waste your money of any of those Clayton programs, they are not legitimate. Choose a real naturapathic college like Bastyr (www.bastyr.edu). It takes 5 years of study after a bachelors degree and is expensive but the world needs more raw doctors and you will actually be able to diagnose and treat people. If I thought I could handle the math and science I would go this route. I think a raw doctor would be very successful as raw attracts more and more people all over the world.

Take care,

Audrey
www.rawhealing.com

[healthisraw1]

listen to it

I have been a cook, restaurant manager for 27 years.
I love serving people and making them happy, but what I serve them is so unhealthy for them and the animals used. It hurts my soul. I had a restaurant of my own in Cali, not raw I lost a ton of money people loved my food but it wasnt a good local.

now I am managing a very small restaurant making less money than I did 15 years ago and after my loss financially i feel stuck.

Im existing and I think once I regain my health Ill have to just walk out of this mode..........................ill be looking for a raw career.

I want to publish a raw foods preperations guide/uncook book
after I lose all my weight I want to give back and help obese people get healthy. That more than anything i hate being fat its torture on so many levels.

Im 46, time is a factor.............................ILL GET THERE

TRUST YOUR INSTICTS AND BE HAPPY
PEACE AND I WISH YOU THE LIFE YOU WISH
Bill

[GreenPrince]

My daily job of being an Optician is not what my heart is in either and my boss expects me to manage my own store upon graduation in May!!!

Kashendel,
To help your heart at this point, read Take off your glasses and see, by Jacob Liberman, O.D., PhD.
Three Rivers Press, New York, ISBN 0-517-88604-9

He has radical new ideas about the eyes and eyesight improvement,
and it's not about eye muscle exercising. He cured his own eyesight and left the optical branch.

[GreenPrince]

I'm a few years behind you, but I'm in a similar position. I'm majoring in psychology, but I don't want to become a psychologist. I don't want to get my Masters in it...maybe I do I don't know. I really want to work with hollistic/alternative nutrition and health counseling as well as personal training. I REALLY want to go to a school in NY. It's 8 months long only on weekends. If money will allow it I'm going there next year after I get my associates here and the year I return I'll transfer to James Madison to complete my psychology degree.

Dreamrawalwz,

Please, complete your academic degree/degrees as far as you can!

The education levels increases in the world. Even if you now think you never will work
in these fields, you will benefit of the title in your work with "hollistic/alternative nutrition
and health counseling as well as personal training". Believe me!

Look at me. I was a little bit from a PhD in psychology, jumped off to study medicine in
one of the most well-renowned medical schools in the world, the school which selects
the Nobel Prize Winners in Medicine. I made the heavy part of the MD, all
preclinical courses.

One day in an intensive care unit, when I gave intravenous narcosis to a patient, btw
a head doctor, I thought "this is the peak of my career. What the ... am I doing here?
I don't want to be a psychologist or MD with the limited views they are forced into.
I wasn't born to help people this way, I was born to coach millions of people.
So I have to quit this."

Here I am.
Now, I see what I could have done for the world as a raw vegan MD.

Well,
the mean of a 100% raw foodist and a 50% MD makes a 75% raw vegan MD... ;)