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Twice the work, half the pay – Latest News

People like to trash discuss Los Angeles and California, however I LOVE IT HERE. I’m dedicated! I even married it.

That’s proper, I’ve by no means married a man, however I took my metropolis’s identify and formally grew to become Liz Angeles.

I’m dedicated to staying heat, staying in form, and staying broke!

I’ve run a luxurious therapeutic massage business for 37 years, however currently I’m working twice as onerous for half the money.

Here’s my story.

People like to trash discuss Los Angeles and California, however I LOVE IT HERE. I’m dedicated! I even married it. ShutterFalcon – stock.adobe.com

That’s proper, I’ve by no means married a man, however I took my metropolis’s identify and formally grew to become Liz Angeles. Provided by Liz Angeles for CA POST

I’ve run a luxurious therapeutic massage business for 37 years, however currently I’m working twice as onerous for half the money. Getty Images

As a California-bred, Sonoma County-raised child, I used to be despatched to stay with my blackjack-dealing mom in Vegas as a result of, nicely, I used to be a teen residing with my dad and two brothers. Enough stated.

Because I completed high college in Sin City, we couldn’t afford out-of-state tuition, so UNLV in the ’80s it was; ALL of the ’80s.

And what a time certainly. Slinging cocktails and cigarettes was my compulsory demise.

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In my mid-20s, I managed to flee in 1989 with $30, and relocated to Hollywood to behave.

After two years, I used to be severely discouraged by the predatory nature of the industry — one which, as Patrick Swayze stated, “is bound and determined to turn you into a whore.”

Well, if “happy endings” have been my jam, I might have stayed in Vegas and made that half of my therapeutic massage follow. But — eww!

Well, if “happy endings” have been my jam, I might have stayed in Vegas and made that half of my therapeutic massage follow. Instagram/@justwhatyouknead

I used to be all the time a scrapper. I had began my own typing service in school. So in LA, I did no matter jobs I might discover. I grew to become a courtroom reporter, a realtor, a waitress, a salesperson, and a feng shui practitioner. I did all of it; all the time a hustler.

Eventually, I put my therapeutic massage abilities to work, and based Just What You Knead.

I relocated to Santa Monica — for the ocean breeze, the flowers, the trees, the health food, and the yoga, the place I may very well be artistic and luxuriate in my life.

My therapeutic massage follow that took off, growing exponentially, in order that I needed to deliver on different highly-seasoned practitioners to affix me. It acquired so large that I needed to open one other studio in 2022.

But with the financial roller-coaster after the pandemic, I needed to close that second studio.

Now that we’re affected by the loss of residents from the Palisades Fire close by, business is slower than it’s ever been.

And since relocating to LA, my rent has gone up 1,000%. The price of a therapeutic massage has not!

Eventually, I put my therapeutic massage abilities to work, and based Just What You Knead. Provided by Liz Angeles for CA POST

I can not compete with the very low cost therapeutic massage institutions on the road that exploit the immigrant workforce.

People count on a lot for thus little.

What we do could be very strenuous, and most people don’t final 37 years on this business, as I’ve.

I thrive on pampering and spoiling people, however as a result of I’m a self-employed single mom in Santa Monica, the hustle continues!

I can’t afford holidays, ever, however I keep right here as a result of my daughter is in a great college district in Santa Monica. My business has taken such a hit that I’ve to take my therapeutic massage chair to the park to drum up work.

I don’t know what I might do with out my neighborhood of superb natural healers and practitioners. We typically heal one another.

What we do could be very strenuous, and most people don’t final 37 years on this business, as I’ve. Instagram/@justwhatyouknead

I’m nonetheless hustling and doing random jobs. Just just lately, I acquired paid to scream for a short horror movie, “Killer Revenge,” written and directed by Jasmine Davis.

I additionally acquired paid to create a postcard for my buddy Denise Young, who based the California chapter of the Children’s Health Defense, and who labored alongside RFK Jr. She is now engaged on attempting to advertise regenerative farming, a method that ought to substitute our present crops of harmful meals.

I’m so grateful to my shoppers, who’ve all the time put me No. 1 on Yelp or Google.

But now that I don’t pay to promote there, it’s crickets.

So many of us can’t afford a lot of something proper now, together with having fun with our seashores or parks, as a result of work and survival are paramount.

So I’m back to hustling. I’m taking comedy courses. We’re studying to do crowd work. We are instructed to make enjoyable of the people in the viewers.

Since that’s so in opposition to my nature, I faux these people are the politicians who acquired us into this mess.