Wellness Careers?

[Noname123]

Ok, so with so many of us continuously mentioning how we wish we could work in fitness/wellness/nutrition......

 

I figured lets start a job list! Maybe it can be a potential job for high school and college NFers, or a transition job for us working folks or even just a side step into a similar role that will help incorporate our passion for wellness whether it's fitness, nutrition or mental state.

 

Mental Health: 

Psychologist

Psychiatrist

Counselor

 

Fitness: 

Personal Trainer

Fitness instructor (yoga, Les Mills, Zumba, list goes on and on) 

Gym Manager

Active Gear Tester (they exist!!)

 

Nutrition: (I'm drawing blanks here!)

Nutritionist

 

 

I work in an HR role at the moment and am hoping to work towards a CWP (Corporate Wellness Professional) cert in the next year or two. Although if I see any awesome ideas I may try to shift my career in that direction, lets keep the list going  

[TheOtherScott]

- Physiotherapist

- Athlete (hey, it could happen to one of us)

- Coach (some overlap with Personal Trainer here)

- Researcher/Scientist/Professor in Kinesiology/Exercise Physiology/Nutrition Sciences

- Recreation programs, including Gerontology

- Chef

- Author/Writer

 

Some of those would require extensive schooling, but others don't necessarily.

[lairpie]

^{Web developer, or an awful lot of jobs that aren't really fitness related, but are if you do them for a smallish fitness company. I doubt the IT support guys for Nike really get that sort of "wellness vibe" telling people to restart the computer and plug the mouse back in, but for a smaller company, you sure do.}

[shaar]

Social worker and school counselor could both go under mental health, too!