Optometry jobs

[AmyOD]

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I was just wondering what the job market was like for optometry doctors. Is it difficult to find a job after graduation?

 

[Tom_Stickel]

I was just wondering what the job market was like for optometry doctors. Is it difficult to find a job after graduation?

Amy,

Your question is a good one but a bit too broad. It depends on several things, namely:

1. What do you want to do?
2. Where do you want to do it at?

If you want to join in with a family optometrist in a specific location in a small town, you might find the market to be very bad. If you're content to work in a Sears or Wal-mart and don't have geographic limitations, you wouldn't have much, if any, trouble finding a job. The market can vary dramatically by state and between rural and urban areas.

The problem with optometry right now isn't finding jobs after graduation, it's finding a job that you like that also pays enough to repay your student loans.

Tom Stickel
Indiana U. 2001

 

[ppa93]

Amy,

Your question is a good one but a bit too broad. It depends on several things, namely:

1. What do you want to do?
2. Where do you want to do it at?

If you want to join in with a family optometrist in a specific location in a small town, you might find the market to be very bad. If you're content to work in a Sears or Wal-mart and don't have geographic limitations, you wouldn't have much, if any, trouble finding a job. The market can vary dramatically by state and between rural and urban areas.

The problem with optometry right now isn't finding jobs after graduation, it's finding a job that you like that also pays enough to repay your student loans.

Tom Stickel
Indiana U. 2001

I agree with you. a friend of mine just graduated from SCCO, and he had hard time finding a job in California cos he wanna work in California. He still couldnt find one, so he decided to move to Arizona where he is offered a job. The pay was not that high since he just graduated. 78,000 a year.
I hope that helps.
If you are very picky about where you wanna work, you will have a big problem.

 

[xpothosx]

is there a particular website that we can see where there are job openings. I about to start opt school, but would like to see whats out there.

 

[od2b77]

SCCO website has a job placement section, there are a bunch of different jobs available all over southern CA, the pay is between $275 and $350 per day. I'm assuming thats for entry level jobs since they are posting on the SCCO.

 

[jav316]

there are a few websites you should look at:

http://www.seniordoc.org/vfor/index.php?

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/optometrysucks/messages/
(there is another yahoo group 'optometryrocks' but i couldnt find the link - you could probably do a search and find it.