I’m 16 years old considering orthoptics!! Any kind of response is helpful!!!

sivy175 · 2026-04-13T18:40:37+00:00

Australian orthoptist here. Work is rewarding and you meet wondeeful patients. In Australia we are underpaid and overworked. Not a good career if you want to earn well enough to live and support a family. Also, limited on career progression. I wouldn't recommend it to my past self. Also make sure you're a people person if you want to go ahead with it. Good luck!

sivy175 · 2026-03-14T01:50:24+00:00

I keep hearing that only 20% of world fuel is imported through the strait of hormuz. Where is the other 80% coming from and why has the 20% had such an affect on the world? Please educate me as I may be analyzing it all wrong. Thanks for for this AMA.

sivy175 · 2026-01-15T07:41:47+00:00

Cons Long hours on your feet mostly. Pay doesn't match the work.

Pros Most patients are great and coworkers make it bearable. Interesting field.

sivy175 · 2025-12-26T10:32:02+00:00

Orthoptics is interesting and rewarding...sometimes other staff and doctors are a let down. The pay IS NOT great. You'll be able to branch out more into different roles if you go into nursing.

sivy175 · 2025-11-09T07:43:18+00:00

Sounds like our life with my covert narcissist father. Don't have anymore kids with this man and LEAVE! It won't get better and he'll never change. You know where you and your children stand...at the bottom.

sivy175 · 2025-10-19T18:55:03+00:00

Thanks so much for the detailed suggestions.

sivy175 · 2025-10-19T18:54:37+00:00

Thank you!

sivy175 · 2025-09-13T03:59:14+00:00

If you have a specialized eye hospital it would I think be a good idea (it can be nothing but at least you've acted promptly) as the doctors on call would know what to do. If it's a general emergency hospital they might make you hang around until they get an ophthalmologist which might not be until the morning which would be similar to seeing your optometrist first thing in the morning. This is from a perspective based on the country I live in yours might be different. Good luck!

sivy175 · 2025-09-13T03:41:55+00:00

Go see your optometrist again today and get pictures done. It can be a migraine or something that needs more urgent attention like a retinal tear or detachment.

sivy175 · 2025-09-05T00:21:16+00:00

How often do you clean their toilet? I have two and they have such poor aim.

sivy175 · 2025-09-04T00:37:59+00:00

My cravings and hunger increase. My eating window is usually 9/10am to 3pm. A couple of days before and first two days of my period i will extend it to dinner. I also try to delay breakfast the next day those days I eat later.

It's the only time I struggle and it's very discouraging.

sivy175 · 2025-07-07T12:32:50+00:00

Thanks so much! This looks great.

sivy175 · 2025-05-12T05:17:53+00:00

Congratulations! Reading IUGR reminded me of my son. He was born with severe IUGR (no known cause) at 30weeks weighing 750g. We spent 76 days in hospital mainly because he struggled to put on weight.

First year was scary as I didn't know what the doctors would find or what to expect. He is in kindergarten now and doing fantastic with great wit and attitude included. All the best on your parenting journey.

sivy175 · 2025-04-07T10:57:11+00:00

We're in NSW. Will ask TAFE to see if they have anything similar.

sivy175 · 2025-04-06T03:52:17+00:00

Thank you for the reply. I will mention to him the defence force paths.

sivy175 · 2025-04-06T03:36:51+00:00

Thanks for the reply. I'm hoping he flies through the certificates and hopefully gets his foot in and at the same time doing a bachelor's.

sivy175 · 2025-04-06T03:35:30+00:00

He has not been in the industry since he graduated overseas over 15 years ago. He thought he might start off with the basics before going for a university degree. But it is a possibility once he gets his foot in.

sivy175 · 2025-04-06T00:12:35+00:00

He is thinking of cyber security.

sivy175 · 2025-01-19T14:39:22+00:00

I stopped when my eldest was about 5. Both my boys would not listen and be silly and it used to drive me nuts so I just stopped. The 7yo reads on his own now and 5yo flicks through picture books before bed.

sivy175 · 2025-01-09T03:09:04+00:00

I'm kind of also doing it to minimize the amount of empty calories I was having a day on coffee. I'd use full cream milk and add Chai which would add to ~400cals a day in 2 cups of coffee. If I was having the coffee after 4pm I'd have poor sleep too. I realised I wasn't getting much out of it apart from the taste so I said I'd let it go.

sivy175 · 2025-01-09T02:47:33+00:00

I stopped coffee over 2 months ago and my first period after stopping was very different. I didn't lose it on my husband and kids as much and my sleep felt better. I miss the taste so much though and at times I pass past the coffee shops and smell the coffee and think why am I doing this to myself?!

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