If you want to become an optician and don't know where to start, this article is for you! If you're looking for something related to customer service, and you like when your clients are satisfied, then you should read this article. I wrote it because I am also interested in what does an optician do in their daily life. And I'm also going to learn it with you!
It's about being proactive and multitasking. There's a lot to do, but that's what makes it exciting.
Opticians have a lot of tasks. The most important one is the customer service. Opticians take care of helping customers find the perfect eyeglasses to match their needs. They design and fit the eyeglasses and also the contacts and prescription sunglasses. Furthermore, opticians usually instruct the customer how to take care of their eyewear. Opticians do other in between tasks like making appointment, take care of the inventory and selling eyewear to customers.
On a typical day opticians prepare for the customers and help them find the perfect eyewear for them. With the good instruments, they take measurements to fit the customer's eyewear. They also, most of the time, work with the optometrist.
Opticians work in a lot of different places, but they often work in eye care centers or stores or alongside the optometrist in an office for medical purpose.
To become an optician in Quebec, you have to have your degree of three years training (in college). Also, to have prior experience in the customer service. And finally, in Quebec, you have to be a member of "l’Ordre des opticiens d’ordonnances du Québec".
In Quebec, opticians make 17 to $25 per hours.
The perfect way opticians can add experience or training is to do on-the-job training. Thanks to this, the optician will be well-prepared for the real world. It will also help them perfect their abilities. They can be apprentices alongside senior opticians.
There's no really dangers of being an optician because we work for customer service, and it's kind of calm in this area. But, I would say maybe health problems, because of the hectic schedule. Might as well, stress. All of the problems that come with customer service.
The chances that opticians get replaced by robots are zero, because as you can see the job of an optician needs to be precise. And we don't want to mess up someone's eye's because of a mistake made. In this job we also need empathy to understand the client's needs. It's all about customer service. And robots do not have compassion they do the work without asking themselves questions, and it can cause disaster because the robot couldn't understand the client's needs.
Being an optician in Canada is really something special, because there's not a lot of people in that profession. There's no retirement age for opticians but in Quebec the age of retirements worker are 62 years old.
As you can tell, right now I'm still trying to get into the Optical Dispensing program, since I'm still into the Springboard to a DCS to finish my remedial courses, after I get into Optical Dispensing program, it will be the start of the hardest journey I've ever had, because after that, I might go to university.I'm not sure. University is for my self-esteem. I don't want to waste my time. After I graduate, I'll go look for a firm that will accept me, and maybe, I will go back to school to evolve in the opticians world.
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