Massaging Fats rant I have been practicing massage therapy for close to 8 years now and within the last year of moving to an area with a higher population of obese clients, I'm about to have to throw in the towel and walk away from a career that I was once passionate about. These dipshits want to preach about how their fat bodies don't affect anyone else but massaging a fat puts the same pressure on your wrists as if you were trying to do push-ups on a trampoline or a spring board figuratively. They all complain about their lower back pain and their heads being tilted too forward from sitting in front of a screen all day. It's pretty much impossible to feel sympathetic and have the desire to actually help someone when their pain is from blatantly not caring about themselves. Currently, I am stuck in a place where I don't get to pick and choose clients and unless a small private clinic pops up nearby, it's getting close to giving up before irreversible damage happens. Which sucks because there's so many people in the world who DO want help, but there's no way to avoid taking care of fats or getting to charge them more even though they put more damage on your body. Tendonitis due to massaging too many fatties. Maybe this is purgatory.