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This is the smartest thing I've read yet in this thread....

Thanks for the input everyone.
Walmart doesn't seem like my thing.... Johns was right; I knew the answer even as I typed the question.

I've been approached by the Dispensary Manager of the Wall-Mart here to apply as a management trainee (he actually called me at work to ask me to come in for an interview).... I'd never considered...

oh lordy.... I am sorely tempted....
Every time I go to B.C., I think to myself: I want to live here. And then I realize that there is no work there. Now, as a newly hatched optician, I find that...

hahahaha... doh! Didn't even notice the original post was from wwaaayyyy back in 2007. At least I wasn't the only one....

Me as well : eyewearliquidators@hotmail.ca


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This is an excellent discussion!
I brought this up today at work with my preceptor, and he was like: "oh yeah. Prism thinning causes lots of problems." He seemed to take it for granted that it was...

Yes, thank you; from me as well. I'll need a bit of time to digest it, and do some digging around and I'll surely talk it over with my preceptor.

FWIW, I've had some of my own experience dealing...

Having just recently studied this, I can say that "equithinning" up to 2/3 of the strength of the addition (but not exceeding 3 D total prism) isn't expected to affect the patient in any negative way...

I can vouch for this on a first hand basis. Without knowing the actual numbers I'm guessing that about half of our first year alumni failed the course. (The class average was 66%,with 62.5% required...

I've been running Mr. Blue for almost a year now, it's got about 11,000 jobs on it, and I find it to be a giant piece of crap. Lots of twisted lenses, completley flaky software (you cannot let your...

I'm not sure what you mean by "dual license", but I can tell you that NAIT offers a two year course (I'm currently halfway through) that covers both dispensing and lenses allowing you to become a...

well, if nothing, this got me to thinking, and my first thought was "isn't the College supposed to be our voice?" And then i started to question that assumption, and so I've been digging into it a...

I love this thread. I agree wholeheartedly with idispense.
Not just as Opticians, but as a group of people taken all together as a society, we are generally nothing more than sheep. We've lost sight...

Sorry guys. I wasn't very clear nor was my question well formulated.
Our instructor wants us to use a three cross format to determine the power of a lens based on using the front curve, and two back...

We're using them for more than frame selection. We're given an Rx as well as a base curve and are asked to create three power crosses from that Rx. We're also given three incomplete power crosses,...

Thanks for the input, guys. I've been dreaming about them , and reading a few more articles on them, and seem to be getting a handle on it. I just need to find more time to sit down and do a bunch of...

so... I'm having a bit of a struggle with power crosses.
I can transpose back and forth in my head, but there seems to be a fundamental point I'm not grasping about working with power crosses....

I know of at least one family that received about $700 in beniffits, and I have a feeling it was more. I don't really care; it's not my business, they weren't my claims, the cheques weren't sent to...

This....
I was absolutely floored that their system is so complicated and awkward to use. In this day and age? really?

Also, we found that often, the cheque would be sent to the customer after...

Grooving them was a good adaptation of an old cabinet-maker's trick: I made a small wooden block in the shape of an "L", ripped it through the width and used it to hold a small shaper blade...

Thank you CuriousCat, for recognizing the sincerity of my post, and to Wes, for your welcome.
Diopterman: Unfortunately I'm not taking any orders, so i don't have any frames for sale, though i am...

wow... friendly crowd.

Thought it was time to step forward and say "hi" to everyone.
I've been lurking for a couple months, ever since my career took a 180 deg lurch and I found myself with a whole new career path in the...