Customer service, back when you either called your orders in or sent them on the delivery.
New City Optical, Norfolk, VA 1972.
Customer service, back when you either called your orders in or sent them on the delivery.
New City Optical, Norfolk, VA 1972.
AO, in Sioux City Iowa. . Started sweeping the floors and 3 years later was lab manager. 1969
OD's office, did all the pretesting, billing, filing, I/R's, phone answering and scheduling. And cleaning. I was sixteen. Four years later started optician school.
Neanderthal Optical LTD. 33,173 B.C. Quartz rock finder's apprentice. Also keeper of the eternal pitch flame.
I was first hired as a Lab Tech at Pearle Vision Express in Danbury, CT, the spring before my 20th birthday.
Patient, ".. Doctor says I have a subscription for stigmata.. Can you fill that?"
Me, "..Um.. "
I was the bookkeeper at For Eyes in Atlanta, GA when I was 22. I couldn't keep my hands off the glasses, so they moved me pretty quickly to opticianry.
Contact Lens department receptionist...when I was 19. In Portland Oregon, Eye health Northwest. That was in 1998 . After moving to a private practice about 2 years later I quickly became a full time dispensing optician! ...oh how time flies!
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"The sands of time have already begun to pour against you.." ~Aaron D Yates
My 7 years of Optical "bootcamp" began in 1990 at LC (cashier to asst. retail mgr)
OD's office, Memphis, TN 1992. Hired to answer phones and schedule appointments, within 6 months I was pre-testing, doing I&Rs, ordering all the contacts, filing insurance, selling, adjusting and repairing glasses. I just needed grocery money while hub was in school but the eyecare bug bit me HARD! :)
Looking at girls, since 1969.
1976 part time as admin assistant. Went full time as an optician trainee in 1977. Started ophthalmic science program that year at a community college and graduated 1979. Oh how time flies!
Bev Heishman, ABOM, NCLC-AC
1977 Stock room of a wholesale lab.
General lab gopher - 1965, in Houston, Tx.
J. R. Smith
August 1997 fresh outa high school, worked for Optical One in Youngstown, Ohio. Finning and polishing glass.
1989. I was 17 and told Vision World, now LC, I didn't want to flip burgers. They told me I needed to be 18. I told them to take a chance, that they wouldn't be sorry. They had me fine and polish. The rest is history.
Hired as an apprentice optician in Silver Spring, Maryland by the Dad of a high school friend in 1975. Worked by day, did college at night. I worked there for 13 years and then went out on my own and opened my first optical.
"Coimhéad fearg fhear na foighde"
Fining and polishing a new material (CR-39)on 504s. @ Southern Optical GSO. You can't find entry personnel around these parts that are willing to do this job today. You have to hire Hispanic temps. I guess it is good that more and more this is not done in the US and is done in Mexico. Southern is a mere skeleton of what it was. City Optical, Lensoptics, Piedmont and Miller Optical are long gone.
Delivery boy and frame assembler in an Imperial Optical Lab (my Dad was branch manager) when I was 12 or 13.
Regards,
Golfnorth
1956, AO (Americn Optical) in Southbridge, MA. My flight instructor, Arthur Clemens, was hired by AO as the first pilot of their new flight department. I was hired as line boy to refuel, wash, vacuume and sweep the hangar. As time progressed and I got my commercial pilots license and instrument rating I began flying right seat whenever my school schedule allowed.
I went off to college and the military for ten years and when I returned to civilian life decided to enter the eyecare business as "selling glasses was a license to print money."
U.S. Army, 1993. Some of you guys are old!
Wesley S. Scott, MBA, MIS, ABOM, NCLE-AC, LDO - SC & GA
“As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.” -Albert Einstein
1970 - quit my job as a Jr. High School teacher in R.I. and moved back to NY. Got a "temporary" job as a receptionist in an O.D.'s office - worked one day at the desk, and asked to move to the lab (much more interesting). I went on a trainee permit, and got my dispensing license & CL license in 1974. Yeah Wes, some of us ARE old!
Lost and confused in an optical wonderland!
I started in Atlanta, when I was 19 or 20 in OD office scheduling patients, pretesting & eventually was moved over to dispensary to learn to do I&R & then fit/sell EG. Eventually moved to Virginia where I went to J. Sargeant Reynolds & got degree w/ license... wow how time flies....
Post surface clean-up of lenses prior to being delivered to the bench department, re-stock tool racks and re-claim alloy. Started 3 weeks after my 17th birthday, 1994.
Still demented....
Clinton Tower
The intellect to live free is in short supply
ALT248=°
Disposable lab tech for Pearle Vision at the height of BOGO/1hr service. In the year Of Our Lord Nineteen hundred and Eighty Eight.
I resemble that remarkOriginally Posted by Wes
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