OK, so I have sucessfully completed my massage therapy course. Yay!!!
I just bought a review guide for the NCBMTB national exam. I paged through it at Borders before I bought it. It seems pretty thorough. Distilled Essence of Everything I Learned In School.
The thing is, I’m also extremely broke. I haven’t worked since January- I had developed severe back problems and decided to concentrate on getting myself well so that I’ll be able to function as a therapist. I’m actually lucky in the sense that I’m going into a field where I can make a good living working part-time, and can pace my schedule so I have time to do stretching exercises between clients to keep my body in good working order.
I do intend to keep my Kenesiology and Shiatsu books- they will come in handy as reference books later on, as well as being something I need to study- they were the two classes I had the hardest time with in school.
But as for the rest, I figure I can get about a $150 or so for them if I sell them for a bit less than what they would go for used at a bookstore, and I can really use the bread right now. What with having to go through the paperwork rigamarole with applying to take the exam, and all the hoops I have to jump through to get my license, it will be probably be September before I will legally be able to work as a massage therapist. I’m going to start looking for a part-time job for supplemental income- my Pell Grant and tax refund money ran out when the semester did, but that might take a bit of time, and there’s the small matter of buying groceries in the meantime.
So I want to sell my Swedish Massage, Musculoskeletal Anatomy, Deep Tissue, Anatomy and Physiology and Pathology books. Oh, and I still have my English Composition text left over from last semester, too.
But, will I regret this? The material seems well covered in the review guide, which has loads of practice questions. Basically, it has the feel of the notebook of a really good student who got all of the relavant information from both the lecture and the textbooks. I figure, supplement it with the two books I plan to keep, I should do quite well on the National Exam.
Also, I really don’t want to have to slog through a lot of really thick books to study for the exam. There’s an online practice exam which I just took without doing any studying whatsoever and got a score of 73%, and seventy is a passing grade for the National.
So, can I sell my textbooks?