Got my ISSA and AFI; my area SUCKS
As some of you know; I lost my License to be what I was. So in my downtime besides going to the gym I got my certifications to be a Personal trainer It took me 6 months because I took 2 separate courses. I had no idea that the pay in my area was horse shit. Since I have no experience I need to go work at a gym for about a year. How the hell do they expect someone to live? most rates are roughly 7-10 per hour to start and that is only going by how many clients you get. others are 15-20 if your lucky. The gyms pay garbage around my area and some of the better ones want you to already have a year under your belt. So if experience was a factor, the 1st man to land on the moon never would have. The favorite thing I heard so far at an interview was "But you love what you do, doesn't that make up for it?" I said "loving what I do does not pay my bills."
Another interview set me up for failure. They opened a gym in the worst area ever, horrible demographics; most of the people that go to the gym are in the 25-30K bracket range (I know the town) I was talking to one of the instructors there and he told me to go somewhere else because they are lucky to get 2 people a week to sign up and half the time 1 drops out. I guess opening your own gym is more profitable then being a trainer because it is a small gym but has 500 members. Out of that 500 more then half don't go. the other half come in to do the treadmills and think they are making progress, e.t.c. Rant over.
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I'm sorry to hear that. The trainers at my gym do very well. I refuse to pay what they charge, because it is completely outrageous (more than $100 an hour!). My gym is very expensive and has the right demographics, but still. I've talked to other folks and they say that most trainers do very well in my city. I didn't realize there was such a large disparity between cities/locations. Maybe it's time for you to move to somewhere where the pay is more. You would be an asset to wherever you go. Very best of luck to you.
spewing mate, I swear mate, over here in oz, a standard personal trainer is $1.50 a minute, if you want something better like a (lol) definition technician as they call them selves your looking at $160 an hour, and that's just in your normal everyday gym, not a private one.
I am definitely in the wrong place. I just had a phone interview and the gym said the area was so bad they reduced the rate to 25.00 an hour, thats the gyms rate so imagine what the cut would be for a trainer. I would make more flipping burgers. I was thinking about a 2 year or 4 year but I just paid off my loans from 15 years ago for a bachelors in Computer science which is not the worth the paper it was printed on either believe it or not. I have either too much experience or too little in the computer field.
if you had that computer degree here you would make well over 2 grand a week easy. im abot to start my pt course, im doing the full shebang- dieting, nutrition, training, massage, it will even qualify me to do swimming instructing and a heap of other shit, its almost ten grand for 6 months of their shitty training, but your preety much guarantedd a full time job straight away, ill put up with the bull shit training even though id probably teach the fat fks a thing or too lmao
RustyhookerIf you have degrees already take a look into nurse practitioner for exercise bio or sports med. Huge pay! Programs take bout 2yrs.
Those are the only other choices in my area, i see multiple a week and they want someone with a bachelors or masters. I would ask my friends but they are broke as hell and would rather spend the money on booze and drugs. I have been trying to convince them to stop for many years.