Optometrist

Duties and Responsibilities:

These people treat vision problems. They diagnose the problem by the correct eyeglasses, contact lenses, or even vision therapy. They do treatment of vision from safety, treatment, and of vision disabilities. They can perform surgery. Most of the optometrist work in hospitals, government, agencies, and optical manufactures, or universities.

Average Salary:$78,000

Educational Requirements:

Students who are interested in being an optometrist should take challenging high school courses that are in math, science, and English. You must have two years of experience of college. The school is at least four years in length. They must pass the state exam before starting the practice.

Reflection: I would like to have this job because, I think anything to do with eyes, and glasses are very interesting. I would also like to have this job because I don’t know what I want to be yet in life, so this most likely gives me an idea.  

Student Success Statement

“Never look to the ground for your next step. Greatness belongs to those who look to the horizon.”

Bud Greenspan

This quote is sending a message that says people who look forward know what they are going to see “the future” those people that look down don’t know what they are going to see, because they don’t know what they are going to expect. The reason why most people look down when they walk is because they are scared of what might happen when they look back up again, for example they might trip and fall. People that never look down, most likely trip and fall, but they have lived life and have already learned their lesson. When and where to look down. They don’t need to reply on looking down anymore.   

Orthotist

Duties and Responsibilities:

These people design and replace the limbs. They work with people that need more help with the muscles, spine, and or limbs. The designs are made out of either plastic, wood, or leather. These people work with the physicians. They give the patients prescriptions. They plan and design a needed device. They use computers to design their apparatuses. They can either work in clinics or their own private business.

Average Salary:$25,000-$40,000

Educational Requirements:

Students need to take challenging high school courses that include science, math, and English. A variety of colleges and universities provide the bachelor’s degree. the programs have courses of anatomy, physics, mathematics, and mechanical drawing.

Reflection: I would not want to have this job because it seems very complicated. It seems like I wouldn't like to have this job because I don’t patients and I get frustrated easily. 

John F. Kennedy

This message that John F. Kennedy was trying to send was that we need to work out and be fitted because our life is to fragile and we should miss treat our bodies with just junk food. What I want to do to help my family and my self is stay in the sport I am in, which is swimming. Continue to get an A+ in my pe class (physical education). And when summer time starts I am going to be going to the park and exercise in the morning to stay fit. I also have a pool at my house so I want to exercise by doing laps in the pool. My goal is to eat healthy so I can fit into my 15 dress for my party. With this goal I am also helping myself by staying health. 

Student Success Statement

“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, It is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. The relationship between the soundness of the body and the activities of the mind is subtle and complex. Much is not yet understood. But we do know what the geeks knew: that intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.”

President John F. Kennedy

This quote is sending a message that say that not only do you need to be fit and active to be a healthy person, you can also be healthy by having knowledge. Having knowledge is a great way of being healthy, you need to stay fit as well. you can be healthy by having both. For example students that attend high school are healthy because they are getting an education so that goes for the knowledge. They are also healthy because they are fit for example they take pe class (physical education)  some students have also attended sports that they have to train for after school and even during the week ends of Saturday and Sunday. There is also a variety of student that attend high school that no longer take pe (physical education) but go to the park and work out during their free time. 

Optician

Duties and Responsibilities:

Opticians fit and dispense eyeglasses for the patients, they must look over the prescriptions on the ophthalmologists. They help customers pick out the type of lenses frame, so that they feel comfortable. They measure the distance between the corneas of the eyes so that the lenses may be correctly fitted in the frames.

Average Salary:$19,000-$40,000

Educational Requirements:

Students must take high school courses in the physics, algebra, mechanical drawing, and geometry. A high school diploma is required as well as a GED certificate. The GED certificate of required during training. The training programs have two different types. They have two choices, they can either take a two year program of school of opticianry, or a three year program of job apprenticeship.

Reflection: I would like to have this job because it is just being a doctor for the eye. For example when you help people find the right lenses so they can feel comfortable. You are helping someone out and I like to help people. It makes me feel like I tried my best to make someone happy.

Happy Valentine’s Day ;)

Student Success Statement

“No student ever attains eminent success by simply doing what is required of him/her; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the requirement that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.”

Charles Kendall Adams, American Historian

This statement is sending a message that says that you shouldn't do what others tell you to do. for example you are doing your homework and you know that your teacher is the kind of teacher that loses students paper work, you want to be that student that does a copy of your homework so that if and when your teacher comes to you and says you didn't turn in the homework you have a copy, which means you don’t have to do it again. Most people don’t do copies and just get a bad grade, then don’t understand why others are passing. Do more than you need to, if you already know then why are you going to risk it.