Why optician is a good job ?
If you have a natural inclination towards technical professions and the human factor interests you, but you just can’t suffer the touch and close approach with patients, then a technician job would be great for you. The optician (Do you know that the Norwegian term is optiker) job outlook has shown a great demand in the last few years all over the world. The need for specialized persons with high level of technical knowledge is growing. The common patient in need for eye care and treatment develops educated knowledge in the fine division of ophthalmology branches. For the patient the right specialist for the best and most suitable diagnose and then corrective lens has become very clear in terms of an informed choice.
Just like in other medical fields the optometry finds it necessary to develop and educate new generations of young specialists. To be an optician, it only takes two years of medical studies in comparison with at least four years necessary for the optometrists and ophthalmologists. In the end, the need for studies is only for setting bases for future practice purposes, because the real challenge is to keep studying at work. The good opticians not only have studied in this niche because they find it interesting and in tight compatibility with their personal goals but find it interesting and challenging every day while working. The need for striving to know more on the latest technical and medical appliances for the optometry has to be one bone of the optician’s talent.
The today’s optician is not only responsible for the filling in of the prescription and then setting the right corrective lens for spectacles or contact lenses (Or kontaktlinser in Norwegian). Now with the need for highly specialized medical individuals in more than one branch, there have been grounds for the appearance of mixed specializations with optometry. The opticians are ensuring of the right stages developing in survey and treatment for the patients starting with the preliminary tests up to the recuperation and rehabilitation stages.
The wonderful advances of technology with direct applicability in optometry have fed the young generation’s taste for smaller, faster and light equipments for use by opticians. The global employment expectance for optometry specialists is excellent. So, for money value it is also attractive to become one of the best opticians. On the other hand, the fashion trends look upon wearing spectacles as accessories which makes the prices of glasses lower significantly. This is very good news for those with medical care purpose eyewear need. The opticians speculate much on fashion trends to display larger ranges of spectacles which are attractive for the teen age generation of eye caring patients. The expensive contact lens has fallen second this season.
Moreover the eye problems that develop due to advance in age increase the need for good specialists in the optometry field. The optician will become one of your best friends and you will see them often, once you are over the 40 years age line.
In conclusion, the need for opticians is growing, supported by the technology advances that are not well understood or sympathized by the old specialists, plus the new craze among teenagers for fashionable spectacles is good for the profits.
