Optometry Technician

Duties and responsibilities: Optometric technicians work with optometrists to assist in carrying out eye examinations and treatments. They mostly work in optometrists’ offices, but they may also be in eye care clinics and other vision treatment facilities. They also look over your medical history on what last treatment you got. The responsibilities you have as a optometric technician is testing patient’s visual acuity, depth perception, pressure inside of the eye, color vision, and pupil reflexes. They also prepare exam schedules, ready exam rooms, assist in making or repairing eyeglasses.

Salary: Median pay $30,590

Education: High school diploma required, training programs and associate degrees available

Need for this profession: Over the years the job has increased 23% for medical assistants from 2014-2024.

Spring break

On spring break I had lots of fun. I went hiking with my cousins and my aunt, we went to Pallo Verdes to hike. Then we went to the beach after because where we went hiking it was close to the beach after. My cousin had her camera and we decided to take pictures of the ocean and the other views we saw. Some other day i would stay home to work on my homework. Then on friday i went to go dye my hair and cut it. On Saturday, my friends and I took an adventure to downtown L.A then to the beach. In downtown L.A we walked around, we went to stores and checked out what they had. After we went on the metro to the beach on our way there we stopped by the 711 to get snacks, after that we went to the beach and enjoyed the water. When we came back we got ready to go to a 15. Then yesterday I went to my aunt’s new house and we spent easter there. My aunt has a pool so we took extra clothes to get in and after they had made food then we ate. After we hid the eggs from my little cousins and after they did the egg hunt and it was a lot of fun overall.

Student success statement

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.”

Abraham Lincoln

People always think that being a mean or rude person matters what but what really matters is how you are. You have to understand that things aren’t always going to go your way. For example, if you are a player in a basketball team and you get benched and you think about how getting mad isn’t worth it and you learn how to accept it, that is when your true character comes out and you know you did the right thing than doing the wrong thing because you were upset. Even throughout life you have to learn how to be a good character and choose the right choices because if you end up making a bad choice then you’ll have consequences to face.

Optometrist

Duties and responsibilities: A optometrist who specializes in eye and vision care. What they do is they do sight testing and correction to the diagnosis, treatment, and management of vision changes. Optometrist is not a medical doctor, they receive a doctor of optometry degree after completing four years.

Salary: $116,562 (range $103,207-$129,159)

Education: In order to become an optometrist you’ll need to finish high school. Have a bachelor’s degree, then go into a college complete four years. After go into programs having to do with the studies of optometrist.

Need for this profession: The percent went up by 15%.

Student success statement  

"Many think that the short term gain will be worth the long term pain, but it isn't. In addition, using steroids is cheating, and there is nothing worse in sports than a cheater. Don't do it." 

If you think cheating will do any good then you are wrong, cheating is something wrong and if you still do It and you know it's wrong then you will have this guilt that you will have forever. Cheating on anything is wrong, you think it doesn't affect you because it's your own mind or body but if you really think about it cheating also affects the people around you. It can cause for someone else to do it, it can cause someone to end up hurt, it can cause someone to lose trust in you, it can cause not you learning anything. It's better to be a person who doesn't cheat at all and sticks to their honesty. 

"I won't cheat." 

Dale Murphy  

If you cheat your way into winning something, you actually didn't win fair. It's better not to cheat because if you cheat and you knew it was wrong you're going to have guilt and that guilt can stick with you forever. For example if you are having an exam on one of your classes and it's really important, you end up cheating and you get a good grade, you'll start to have guilt because you knew it was wrong and you still did it. So you might as well not cheat at all because if you cheat you will have problems to deal with later and you don't want that. 

"Character Matters Most." 

Dale Murphy 

It doesn’t matter what things you have or how many things you have. What really matters is your character and who you really are as a person. If you are a person with a good character then you are a good person who never does anything wrong and always does the right. If you are those type of people who have a bad character then people are not going to trust you with anything. It's not your words that count it's the actions and how you really are inside matters.