Optometry Technician or Assistant  

Duties and Responsibilities: 

         The role of an optometrist is to examine the eyes and any part of the visual system. The diagnose vision problems and manage the disease of the patient. Being an optometrist technician you can also prescribe eyeglasses and lenses.  

Salary: 

The median pay for an optometrists as of May 2015 is $103, 900.  

Education: 

Most people who want to become an optometry technician or assistant need to complete and O.D degree and obtain a license to practice in that state. However, in order to obtain an O.D degree you also need a bachelor's degree.  

Demand or Need of Profession: 

In the next 10 years, about 27% of employments will increase for this type of job.  

 

Reflection: 

I would not like to be an optometry technician because they mostly do examinations or surgeries on the yes and that is not my interest at the moment.  

 Ophthalmologist 

Duties and Responsibilities: 

Ophthalmologist have some quite the same duties of an eye doctor. However, they can perform surgeries and treat eye diseases. They can also prescribe contact lenses and glasses to the patients that need it.   

Salary: 

The average salary of an ophthalmologist is $98.46 per hour. Though if you have experience of 1-5 years your annual salary ranges from $105,015 to $249,468.  

Education: 

To become an ophthalmologist you need a four year postgraduate training after obtaining a medical degree. You need a three year residency in ophthalmology with a one year internship. That is you need 4 years of college and 4 years of medical school.  

Demand of Profession: 

According to the BLS only a 14 percent increase of jobs will open for ophthalmologists on the next 10 years.  

     

Reflection: 

I think that besides a very long time of schooling to become an ophthalmologists it can be worth it if you want to be one for the eyes. But if I was to choose what I would want to do for the rest of my life I wouldn't like to be this. That is because being in an office is not for me and the surgeries aren't either.