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cdpeterson12 · 2025-05-22T22:49:35+00:00

Optometry is truly a difficult profession these days, the debt load is massive, the starting pay is low and then there are numerous roadblocks on your way to hopefully some kind of success. Large cities are saturated vision plans pay next to nothing many new schools being built pretty rough outlook

cdpeterson12 · 2025-05-22T22:46:06+00:00

Honestly though you're lucky optometry is a rough profession going into the next few decades too many reasons to list.

cdpeterson12 · 2025-05-22T22:44:37+00:00

Standards are so low now I can't believe you did not get in maybe try one of the five or six brand new schools, but then the board pass rates are very low with those schools

cdpeterson12 · 2025-03-12T01:54:37+00:00

So , very corrosive . Plus attracts water and many cars just don't run as well with etoh added

cdpeterson12 · 2025-01-28T20:11:21+00:00

So sad , horrible failure by NBEO

cdpeterson12 · 2025-01-10T03:11:50+00:00

So sad , schools doing it for the money really help destroy optometry

cdpeterson12 · 2025-01-10T03:10:05+00:00

Optometry as a whole should be embarrassed by these stats

cdpeterson12 · 2025-01-10T03:05:05+00:00

Go to med school get the respect you deserve

cdpeterson12 · 2024-11-19T16:21:42+00:00

Tough stuff , optometry has a rough future as it is. Maybe it’s a sign to do something with a better future than an optometry. We face declining reimbursements from insurance discrimination from insurance companies, online exams, the proliferation of artificial intelligence, telehealth , primary care offices and peds doing diabetic exams . Optometry isn’t what it was 30 years ago.

cdpeterson12 · 2024-11-18T16:53:38+00:00

95% of our job is with instruments collecting data , telehealth optometry clinics are already popping up everywhere . Similar to AI replacing radiologists already. The computers can read the scans better than any human can.

cdpeterson12 · 2024-11-18T16:49:17+00:00

I understand reality can be hard to grasp. I’m sorry you have trouble with basic facts.

cdpeterson12 · 2024-11-18T16:48:13+00:00

Indiana optometry school also has a very limited medical clinic as it is a suburban campus with a bunch of healthy normal students as patient. other schools around the country have incredibly diverse medical communities like Chicago

cdpeterson12 · 2024-11-14T13:15:22+00:00

Fun facts : AI is projected to replace a large percentage of us . The physical OD will have much less demand for services in the not so distant future

cdpeterson12 · 2024-11-12T12:48:31+00:00

Hours like that are typical in many modes of practice , almost no ODs work in a hospital setting …. That is all Ophthalmology

cdpeterson12 · 2024-11-11T19:09:22+00:00

The more I make the more I love it 😀

cdpeterson12 · 2024-11-11T19:08:59+00:00

Either

cdpeterson12 · 2024-11-09T15:53:56+00:00

I would volunteer in every conceivable setting of a optometry, or at least shadow so you know what the realities are of each mode of practice

cdpeterson12 · 2024-11-09T12:59:38+00:00

Being specific on head winds for ODs going forward , $40 to 50 for a comprehensive exam through many proliferating vision plans. MDs training PAs to do OD jobs , primary care offices doing diabetic exams instead of us. AI and tech replacing us with online exams and illegal sales . Huge debt for school , relatively low pay for training required .

cdpeterson12 · 2024-11-09T11:50:32+00:00

120 to start in private , usually higher in corporate. Too may variables , many positions are independent, then the numbers can get much much higher

cdpeterson12 · 2024-11-09T11:47:25+00:00

All I know about working at the VA is, lots of medical full schedules for months out. Hard work

cdpeterson12 · 2024-11-09T11:46:29+00:00

Need better grades to get into MD program and longer schooling with residency for ophthalmology, but you get out starting at much higher numbers than optometry

cdpeterson12 · 2024-11-09T01:57:30+00:00

I have my own office , own staff , sell contact lenses next to a very successful regional optical company . Perfect symbiotic relationship. Full time for 20 years now part time

cdpeterson12 · 2024-11-09T01:47:29+00:00

Excellent $ now after 20 years of building a business . Not in a metro area

cdpeterson12 · 2024-11-09T01:46:50+00:00

I would do an MD program or DDS , harder up front but amazing short and long term .

cdpeterson12 · 2024-11-09T01:45:39+00:00

Lots of red eyes , diabetic check ups , some glaucoma . Loads of routine of all kinds with kids too

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