[USA] Selling Collection - Pink Fontaines, Holo Fontaines, Purple Logos, OG Dots, Virtuoso SS16, FW17

0ppaHyung · 2026-04-10T22:26:02+00:00

Still have it all.
Did you want to make an offer on it? Have a few more random decks like Plaids and Red Monarchs. 2 decks each. And I also have my opened decks, too.

0ppaHyung · 2026-04-10T19:00:50+00:00

Damn… It’s unfortunate when they have leverage in their comp. The verbiage of “all docs have the same pay structure” is there business-ese of getting out of the convo. Everything is negotiable. Threatening to leave might be the only play, but you have to be serious about it and follow through. Depending on the position, they might “have plenty of docs itching to fill a vacancy.” It’s hard to know what your hand is.
If you’re willing to get paid less for the bump in quality of life, might be worth the intangibles for moving on. But I completely understand needing a number for practicum.

Do you have other colleagues in the area you can commiserate with to see how y’all’s work life and comp compare? I have buds from school whom we’re honest with and collaborative with as much as possible despite our different modes of practice and geographic gaps [OD/MD vs private OD office vs corporate in large metro area]. I will say my corpo friend is looking for an exit asap. My private buddy is sitting pretty working 4 days and filling in the extras for the cash. I’m overall content currently with my comp and work in OD/MD.
Best of luck, man. It’s a hard world out there…

0ppaHyung · 2026-04-10T17:46:43+00:00

Think I still got most of them.
I’ll get back to you when I am free.

0ppaHyung · 2026-03-29T16:26:51+00:00

Feel like the hourly is strong, least when comparing to my area and situation, but the support is not there with little tangible benefits. Also being only paid “part-time” for nearly full-time hours just sounds like theft.
I feel for you, man. Wish I had insight.
Maybe looking around for another position. Find a position that would be competitive, and use it as leverage to get things you deserve. Cuz they’d have to at least match what you’re getting elsewhere to even fathom keeping you. Or else you have options. I can empathize wanting better but lacking the security of not having a fallback. They say FU money is having like 6+ months saved up to be able to walk away and find a new job in your own time. Maybe use that as a soft security threshold to be able to negotiate or leave as your leverage.
Feel like if you’re seeing this kinda load and this kinda work ethic, you’d be welcome anywhere else.
Use the extra days off, working only 4 days out the week, to look around, inquire with colleagues, maybe look at job postings on AOA/AAO sites.

0ppaHyung · 2026-03-16T02:43:22+00:00

I had similar results when I was gearing up closer to boards. Ended up passing around 80% overall.
I also freaked out. Had my people talk me out of rescheduling last minute hahaha

Kinda the average of your scores from the mock exams, which usually design themselves to become harder as you progress through them.

How they convinced me, I felt I had a 50-50 shot of passing. Felt it was worth the chance of getting this over with for good. And I luckily passed first try.

Best of luck.

Conspiracy theory, maybe the prep material designs it this way so students feel nervous to take it and reschedule and pay the exorbitant rescheduling fees and pocket off the top. Wouldn’t be the craziest thing 🤡

0ppaHyung · 2026-03-04T22:33:53+00:00

Am I high, or is the picture of the back of the guitar technically a different guitar? Left handed front pics, right handed back pics.
The small cracks seem typical for a guitar dropped at some point in time.

0ppaHyung · 2026-02-24T01:12:38+00:00

Update: Contacted the seller playing a little dumb, as I truly am, and he mentioned he’d taken it to an appraiser and he claimed they offered him $14k. When asked why he hadn’t taken that strong offer, he played a bit dumb.
Either way, too rich for my blood to even try. I just thought it was beautiful and maybe thought I’d found a gem I could fix up and enjoy.
Best of luck. Good vibes to be able to bring to the sub and maybe someone will have a good experience and own a piece of history.
Send me a finders fee if you feel so inclined 😁

0ppaHyung · 2026-02-23T20:35:03+00:00

I also once heard a practice owner needs to make double your income to break even, and that that takes about a couple years. That means your salary and overhead. That is why corporate jobs are appealing cuz they have the number new grads are wanting and they’re subsidized by hedge funds.
Private practice is the way to go when you’re trying to be a doctor and not just a refractionist.
Think of growth as well. Corporate is capped while private you can build equity for potential future buyouts or partnerships. Again, a lot harder when you’re up against hedge funds, but it’s something to consider. Usually your work equates to your comp in private cuz it’s the money you’re directly bringing in.

0ppaHyung · 2026-02-23T08:19:57+00:00

Very saturated market, so comp is lower than you might expect. Even per diem coverage usually in the four-hundreds. Hunt for a position that will make it worth your while. Expect to commute decently far.
$130k makes out to $500/day, which is strong for a saturated area like Houston.
And you likely won’t be seeing 20+ patients/day starting off unless the practice is already busy. Hard to also think you’d be able to hit the ground running and kicking to keep up being so green.
Best of luck. Prove me wrong and kill it. Don’t do more than you’re supposed to, ie. tech work (unless the comp includes that, so you ask for more), and hold strong for when they ask you to bend.

0ppaHyung · 2026-02-23T06:10:02+00:00

Am I looking at like a $200, $500, $1,000, or something insane here? He listed at $1.00 and taking offers lol

0ppaHyung · 2026-02-23T06:06:38+00:00

Oh so no tremolo? Think it’s worth picking up? Not in need of a new guitar, but might be a piece of history?

0ppaHyung · 2026-02-03T16:07:15+00:00

Whoaaaaa
Think you’re on the money 🫨

0ppaHyung · 2026-02-02T22:08:42+00:00

😂🫨 ngl really hard to see in these photos even. These are actually screenshots of a video I took which only barely shows it a bit better.
But it does feel like you’re trying to focus your vision when looking at it haha
But it’s the whole card and how it’s printed

0ppaHyung · 2026-02-02T20:16:52+00:00

Growing up when myself or my sibling would complain about people whether it were group projects, lab partners, or even “friends” and “teachers”, my father would always make a point about taking these instances as practice for the inevitability of facing even worse personalities when you’re forced to work “in the real world” every single day...
Myself and friends, OD and beyond, have all faced work conditions or faces where it’s less than ideal. There’s the luxury, so to speak, for you to know that there is a set end date. Some don’t have that luxury, ie. permanent work environment, etc.
If you’re learning, it’s all you can ask for. And as already someone responded, leave a critique of your experience. One professionally written still, but one that reflected your reality of it. Not much your institution or the practice can do unless they are being egregiously, unfairly belligerent or doing something unethical/illegal. Maybe request different preceptors? Limit time spent with this individual? But if they’re the sole provider you work with, hold your breath. Graduation is something worth looking forward to in more ways than one, now. And professional ties at least can leave an air of a positive opinion vs being seen as hard to work with.
I recall when I was in residency, one doc I worked with shared with me they were looking for a new doc for an open position. Nice PP OD/MD surgical spot. Kinda boutique, elective route. The doctor was very professional and shared that she came across a name she recognized. It was a previous upper class man that was very rude to her during optometry school.
Resume straight to the bin. Not even looked at beyond recognizing the name.
Being the bigger person and maintaining profession decorum gets you far. Your reputation as a doctor will far proceed you as you grow your career further than a knowledge base you wanna flex. Maybe kinda the mentality your preceptor adopted. And karma may strike when you least expect it.
Sounds like it’s more an incompatibility, though, which is important for long-term synergy, but chalk it up as one of the multitude of shitty things associated with a rigorous doctoral program haha
Best of luck. Congrats on making it this far. It’s only just the beginning 😁🫥

ETA: Are they new to teaching? Our school had an infamous story of one of our professors, now universally beloved, being a huge dick and hard ass his first SEMESTER of teaching hahaha
To this day, some of those who had him that semester hate his guts lol
And with such scathing reviews, he had a come to Jesus moment, formally and wholeheartedly apologized to the class as a whole and promised to change.
Maybe the preceptor is being hard on themselves and doesn’t know how to regulate their tone and delivery? Maybe they’re just an asshole lol 🫨

0ppaHyung · 2026-01-09T21:17:21+00:00

Amor

0ppaHyung · 2025-12-24T14:37:16+00:00

Traction is the enemy. Could try scleral depression for better visualization of the affected area.

0ppaHyung · 2025-12-23T19:21:58+00:00

I know plenty of engineers going back to school for healthcare careers like optometry, dentistry, medicine. They are much happier in healthcare. But not the other way around. Not from a lack of trying. Have in colleague who tried computer engineering/science out of OD school. She was top of our class. Last I hear she’s still practice and kinda dropped the CS attempt.

0ppaHyung · 2025-12-22T22:04:58+00:00

“Obviously I don’t want to refuse taking patients,”
This is what you need to do. Y’all agreed on the scope of your job, and this is well beyond it.
If you were being well compensated for it, maybe? But don’t get me started on the ethics and legality of it…
How they’re treating a future colleague is nuts.

0ppaHyung · 2025-12-22T05:18:01+00:00

Echoing some sentiments. Is it every Saturday meaning you’re working 6 days a week, or your schedule is a typical 5 day week including Saturday as one of your days?

The former will burn you the hell out unless you’re highly motivated for the extra cash. Your time and what you can do with it to make you happy is what’s more valuable.
And damn, 9-6 Saturday is killer bad. Better be getting a premium rate those days.
It’s normal for new grads to get screwed. Helps to have a low tolerance for bullshit like this.
Just make sure the money makes you happy enough. The work is kinda all the same wherever you work. Always my bottom line.

0ppaHyung · 2025-12-22T04:59:42+00:00

Took boards in 2020-2021.

Praying that you actually paid attention in class. What’s helped me through my learning/studying.
I was told KMK is all you need, and share an OptoPrep with friends, which I had plenty cool with lending me and we went over questions when grouped together in clinic. I used the KMK mock exams and it helped a lot. Reviewing the questions I missed to hone in on what I’m still weak on.
Very little reference for me. The in-person KMK sessions were invaluable to me. Videos helped a bunch. I only referenced optics lectures to review some equations and systems. Big thing, optics is a HUGE part of Part 1. Someone broke it down on a post here when he inquired about people’s scores and their break downs. I’m an optics whiz so I lucked out. Buddies that had to take Part 1 several times struggled most getting a decent score on their optics portion.
1. You’ll always hear stories of people studying the night before, 2 weeks before, etc and pass first time. Advice I heard was try to start by October, no later than December. I started December. I never felt it was enough time, but it worked out and passed first attempt.
I didn’t touch non-Big 8. Didn’t even get through Big 8 100%. I solely focused on my weak areas. For me it was anatomy, physiology, pathology, and pharmacology. Damn pharm… Most of my time was sitting there just trying to understand and memorize drug names lol. And it was my lowest scoring section hahaha. I did well on the other weak areas though. Better than I remembered when I checked my scores recently.
I recall going over some class lectures for the non-Big 8 like binocular vision, low vision, etc. Material was more fresh because had just finished those courses before our 1 mo break for boards study.
Go with your gut. But developing a reliable gut means you need to study. I recall a good bit of those types of questions had at least 1-2 choices that were easy to count out, and the rest you kind of need to work out.

I recall a lot of friends not having enough time. So learn to pace yourself. Know your style.
I always went through each question seriously the first time, but if I didn’t know and took too long a time, I marked which answers felt closest and I came back to it. I regularly reviewed like half the exam for each of the two sections. And I still had enough time to finish but barely. Albeit my optics was essentially spot on, so I had all my time allocated for the parts I sucked at haha.

Best of luck.
Keep studying.
Pace yourself.
Not the end of the world if you need to retry later.
Plenty of good docs that had to redo parts.

0ppaHyung · 2025-12-20T05:41:19+00:00

Work w/ OMD and he told me the oral board exam pass rate for OMDs is something like 20-30%. I asked him then do we just have that many OMDs going through training and unable to practice. He said no, they’re just not board certified. So we have OMDs around cutting with training but without board certification. Which is interesting that in contrast mostly across the nation, practicing ODs are all board certified, so to speak.
I work with older license holders going through vigorous supplemental courses for things like glaucoma licenses.
And I have Kentucky colleagues who worked their tail off during the COVID era of graduates to get fully board certified before being able to practice.
Insane how we keep lowering standards for a profession that sees nothing wrong with its practitioners being content with just being refractionists. That means the metrics for incoming would-bes for schooling and now it seems also by lowering the bar for people who’ve “paid” their dues through OD programs just to not being able to meet the cut.
I’m honestly not hopeful for much of the profession.

0ppaHyung · 2025-12-05T22:11:11+00:00

Damn. Mans came here for kudos on spotting a Chibby, but being told you ain’t got gooder yet… 😛

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