<p>Nightingale: your concerns are justified, IMHO. My wife is a fitness professional with many clients, gotten through years of dogged work and professional pursuit. Very rarely do “degreed” fitness people or athletic trainers enter the field with eyes open to the low wages, long hours and realities of the fitness world. </p>
<p>I can’t tell you the # of 23 y.o. people with a fitness/training degree who will apply at my wife’s gym, expecting to be paid $15/hour. No one gets paid that much and many quickly to other fields. And to be at a level like my wife, she’s had to pay her dues.</p>
<p>Want to give her a lesson? Have her, as an exercise, put in some apps at nearby gyms/fitness centers. She’ll get a quick eye-opening – and even some job offers (even though she has no degree). What will that tell her?</p>