(context: live & work in San Francisco/Silicon Valley area) Before becoming an engineer, I studied massage, and came very close to choosing it as a profession.

(context: live & work in San Francisco/Silicon Valley area) Before becoming an engineer, I studied massage, and came very close to choosing it as a profession. Doing massage, you learn not just to touch, but HOW to touch. There's lots of different ways to touch a person, which give in different ways. Even now, it's naturally woven into my personality. I touch as part of my normal face-to-face communication with most people. Generally speaking, adults are STARVED for touch. As in, they deeply crave to be touched, and to touch others. But for whatever reasons, people around here don't have enough opportunity to give/receive that, even those in a relationship. Knowing how to give that to people in a way they can receive is a massive gift. It's desperately, desperately needed.