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Originally Posted by netmag
The thing that these people don't realize is not every OD feels that these places are that bad. No it's not like traditional optometry but shockingly enough some people actually don't feel like it's terrible to work in these environments.
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Netmag, it is deplorable that you appear to be passively portraying yourself as an OD, leading prospective optometry students to believe that you somehow understand the details of what it is like to work in a place like America's Best. You don't. If you want to comment on what it's like to work in a CVS pharmacy, have at it, but leave the optometry comments to those who actually work in the field. For my duration on this forum, I have been baffled as to why a pharmacist would choose to spend time writing posts about a profession he has never experienced - or why he would repeatedly show up, make false posts about other posters, and the disappear for weeks like a fart in the wind. Why is that, netmag? I have listed too many false accusations to count and it's funny that you've never once been able to come back and defend your claims.
I know at least 10 docs who work for, or have worked for America's Best or some low-end equivalent. They make Lenscrafters look like the Mayo Clinic. They are the absolute garbage bin of optometry and I can guarantee you that NO ONE who works in one of those places enjoys their work. You can't be strapped to 60+ patients per day, "comprehensive exams with CL fittings" and be even marginally satisfied with your work. It can't happen. But you go ahead telling readers of this thread that "It's not that bad." When they're sitting in a box refracting 200 people per day for 80K/yr, I hope they look back on this thread and remember that they were suckered into optometry by an optometrically obsessed pharmacist.
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Originally Posted by netmag
- This next one is a bit odd and I'm hesitant to mention it, but it's come up on these forums several times so I guess it is what it is. I've noticed that there are some males here who have a near misogynistic view of women in this profession. They often insinuate (or flat out say) that women are one of the causes of the decline in pay for ODs because they are more flexible on hours and optometry offers a good work/life balance. This small contingent of males seem to have some serious personal ego problems and make one wonder if perhaps they actually feel a bit emasculated by this profession. They're usually the ones that are looking for any excuse they can find to explain why they haven't been able to be as successful as they felt they should be entitled to.
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A perfect example of someone who is offering advice, but yet is totally out of touch with reality. I hear plenty of negativity about optometry, chief, but I almost never hear anyone discuss the idea that women are somehow collapsing the profession. That you would even spend a paragraph discussing it as some major factor is demonstrative of your total lack of understanding of the dynamics of what's going on in the profession. There are more women in optometry now than there was in 1980. It's hardly contributing to the sinking the profession.
Part time employment is becoming more and more common for new OD grads, both male and female. It's a result of the profession being overcrowded, not that women are mounting some sort of take over. Personally, I think the only reason you mentioned it was so you could use the word "misogynistic" in a sentence.