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This has to modify! The time has come to do something about this, as it is awful that it plenty of acupuncturists are going in to debt over $100,000 from their schooling and are facing the sole option of building a private practice.
If you are an acupuncturist researching job opportunities around the U.S., you have likely noticed that there is a shortage of options. When I graduated from acupuncture school, I searched high and low for job openings and was absolutely shocked by the shortage of resources available for newly graduated acupuncturists.
Now, let me be clear on this point: I DO think that the actual freedom, joy, financial potential, and power is present in building a successful private practice. Most of this weblog is dedicated to helping practitioners do that. Even in case you discover a nice acupuncture job, it will still likely pale compared to benefits (financial and otherwise) of having a private practice.
Most salaried positions that acupuncturists can find are short-term solutions with long-term sacrifices. Building a private practice is the opposite- short-term sacrifice for long-term gain.
I learned this lesson the hard way back in 2001 when I took a job in a chiropractic clinic right out of acupuncture school. I was one time getting paid $30 per hour and was initially thrilled about this, since I had never made that much before. But the harsh truth of the 'real world' kicked in soon thereafter and stomped on my naivete, as I noticed that the clinic was having me see all no fault insurance patients and billing out $250 per treatment. Given that I was one time seeing 3-4 patients an hour, I noticed that the clinic was making $500-1,000 an hour off of me and paying me $30 of that.
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Of coursework, this left an dreadful taste in my mouth, but it was a wake up call to how business is so often conducted in our modern society. At the risk of sounding cynical, it's become increasingly clear to me that most worker positions (and I am not speaking of the acupuncture profession here) are actually well-disguised forms of slave labor where a high degree of exploitation is evident when probes even a tiny beneath the outward facade.
This is why I am so passionate about being an entrepreneur. I have had plenty of roles in my life where I felt limited, taken advantage of, and stifled. I have come to face the truth that I am psychologically unemployable- and I now to see that as an excellent thing.
With that being said, in case you are looking for an acupuncture job, I absolutely encourage you to learn the promotion and business building skills you will need to build a private practice. You can leave your name and electronic mail in the field below to start getting the right foundation in this regard.
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All right, I will get off my soapbox now and say that I do see it as a positive for the profession if they can get more jobs created for new practitioners. I recognize that a sure percentage of acupuncturists (perhaps the majority) are not interested in building a private practice and would much prefer to have patients handed to them, even if it means they must compromise in sure ways.
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