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What we require, and what we do not
Three things are genuinely required. Several more help. A few things people assume are required are not, and it is worth saying which.
In short
Three requirements: registration as a service provider under Thailand's Health Establishment Act, your own sheets, towels and oil, and the ability to travel across Bangkok including late at night. Everything else is preference, and a strong specialism matters more than a long list of certificates.
Required, without exception
Registration as a service provider, having completed a course certified by the Department of Health Service Support within the Ministry of Public Health. This is Thai law rather than our policy, and we check it before your first booking.
Your own equipment, and there is not much of it. Clean sheets and towels for every booking, and oil. Every treatment is worked on the customer's bed, so no mat and no table. Customers provide the bed and nothing else.
The ability to travel. That means across the city, at hours that include late evening and sometimes the early morning, to addresses you have not been to before.
What helps, in the order it helps
Years actually worked. This is a craft where experience compounds visibly, and it is the strongest single signal we have. It outweighs any certificate.
A specialism you can name. Somebody who is genuinely good at deep tissue and says so is far more useful to us than somebody who says they are equally good at everything, because it lets us send the right person rather than the nearest one.
Training at an accredited school. Wat Pho carries real weight, and it is not the only school that does. Say where you trained and roughly how many hours.
Court-style training, which is rarer than common style and which we get asked for specifically by customers who found a previous Thai massage too intense.
Enough English, Japanese, Chinese or Korean to handle a doorstep conversation. Not required, genuinely useful, and worth mentioning if you have it.
Not required, despite what people assume
A vehicle. Most of our therapists travel by public transport and taxi, and the transport contribution is banded by distance so the longer journeys are covered rather than eaten.
Full-time availability. Part-time works, and being genuinely reliable on three evenings a week is worth more to us than being nominally available seven and hard to reach.
Fluent English. The working vocabulary of a massage is short, and anything complicated is handled by us at the booking stage rather than by you at the door.
Experience with outcall specifically. Shop experience transfers. What does not transfer automatically is the travel and the working alone, which is why both are described plainly on the main page rather than discovered in week one.
What we will ask you
Where you trained, for how long, and what your licence covers. Expect us to want to see it.
How long you have been working and what you are strongest at, described in your own words rather than ticked off a list.
Which hours you will genuinely work and which districts you will genuinely travel to. Accuracy here is worth more than enthusiasm; a schedule built on optimistic answers falls apart in the second week.
Anything that would change what you can safely do, or which customers you should not be sent to. That conversation is confidential and it is better had at the start.
About pay
We have not published a rate card, and we would rather say that plainly than put a wide range here and negotiate downwards from it. Pay is agreed directly, based on the treatments you offer and the hours you actually want. Ask in your first message and you will get a real figure rather than a bracket.
Questions we get asked
- I trained outside Thailand. Can I still apply?
- Registration under the Health Establishment Act is still the requirement, and training completed abroad does not automatically satisfy it. Write anyway and tell us what you hold; whether it can be converted or supplemented is a question worth asking rather than assuming.
- Do you take male therapists?
- Yes. Most requests we receive specify a female therapist, so the volume of work is honestly lower, and it is fairer to say that than to take somebody on and leave them with an empty schedule.
- How many bookings can I expect?
- It depends on your hours, your districts and how quickly you reply. We will not put a number on it before knowing those, because a figure invented to sound attractive is the fastest way to lose somebody in the first month.
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Tell us where you trained
Where you trained, how long you have worked, what you are strongest at, and the hours you actually want. That is enough for a first message.