Like I'd said, Craig's List is an indispensable resource for Personal Trainers -- namely, those not particularly tied to a gym or studio. The fitness industry is just awesome: Exhibit B in an on-going blog series documenting the outrageous opportunities that exist...a really personal Personal Trainer!

The evidence is purely anecdotal, but a great many women seem to very much prefer male trainers. So much so that it's said some even insist on a male trainer, and are actually lost as prospective customers on that simple account!

I'm struck by the lack of male East Asian personal fitness trainers. Are there like only three of us in the whole city or what?

I don't mean tai chi masters and the like. I'm talking about one-on-one fitness trainers for general exercise in a gym. I've seen only one other East Asian trainer, and he was working floor hours at a Bally's in the most Asian part of Queens county. Browsing trainer profiles online, I've yet to come across more than two other East Asian trainers in the whole United States.

Trainers know that Craig's List is an indispensable resource for building a client base. However, it's also interesting to peruse the fitness help-wanteds, just to see what else is on offer out there.

One way to test how much you love what you do is to see whether you'd still do it if you were to win the lottery. Me, I definitely would still be a personal fitness trainer. Moreover, if I won the lottery, I would be enrolled in advanced programs of study in other careers within the general health and wellness field, making myself the ultimate trainer: someone with an R.D. degree, and state-licensed to practice massage therapy, and a physical rehabilitation therapist as well!

It seems that gyms do not interview on Fridays. Only a couple of places, for that matter, interview on the weekends at all (yes, "Friday" should be part of the "weekend"). What is it about Fridays? What happens on Fridays at a gym, that it would preclude the hosting of a job interview? How's it worked out that I've never had a Friday interview in my whole career?