My State Will Be Delicensed, Is Yours Next?
North Carolinians, We are on the list to be immediately Delicensed! NC Gear. I KNOW we are all busy covering our stores, looking to the next day off, and that's all about to change. I bet half of us NCLDOs work for a big box that has contributes to McCorys proposal. What to do, move to SC, GA, FL? .....as soon as we do that, that state will deconstruct because of our lack of a Union.:giggle:
the super fast growing new optical industry ........
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wmcdonald
This is an example of a real problem in the field I have been describing for many years.......the vast differences between states, and the lack of desire to collaboratively come together to make it easier to move from state to state. We have to fix this soon!
Warren, the only country I know of that has a much older political system and is similar to the USA, is Switzerland with their 24 Cantons, that all have their own Governments and rules, but what concerns professions the Federal Government rules the Country. If you are an optician you, have the same certificate after your apprenticeship and be permitted to officially work in any part of the country and in 4 official languages if you did learn them.
After that you can then take a opticians master course that takes a few years and step up the ladder of knowledge.
However I do not see any agreement on this matter among OptiBoard member/posters, with the exception of a few high quality supporters in line with Barry Santini who will weather any outside disruptions.
On this Continent, Canada was well on the way to become a similar professional organization as there is or was, in most of European Countries.
However the recent deregulation of British Columbia shows now the new trend the profession is going.
All of us should not ignore the super fast growing new optical industry of on-line optical s, supported by over 400 optical manufacturing companies belonging to Essilor on a world wide basis and more to join them.
they will pass into history when their entrepreneur owners tip over .............
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rbaker
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There are, of course, exceptions to this rule but they will pass into history when their entrepreneur owners tip over and pass on to their eternal reward or Mr. Big Corporation makes them an offer that they cant refuse.
Today it is the same in every field of commercial activity with the exceptions for actual maintenance companies, that are needed for work on the spot.
The power of the internet lets you reach every corner of the world in seconds, but most people do not care what is happening elsewhere in their field of work and income.
North America is the training ground for the big corporations because of the largest commercial freedom of any country. Then they use what they learned when setting foot into newly developing countries.
Did you know that one of the most populated countries as India is the next international industrial power house ?
A country where a few hundred million citizens still have never heard of flushing toilette's, they now make car parts for just about every brand world wide. There is also one of the largest weapons industries as the government owned Barhat (BEL), Search for the latest updates on ◾Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) which has today 47,000 employees.
The modern optical scene has already been set up as a full American copy of the Essilor system, from a full line of optical labs right to on-line optical s.