Becoming Optician

School and/or work
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Before I was planning of becoming a sophrologist but it would be stressful as I would be self employed and it’s a short term therapy so you need to find new patients on a regular basis to have a good salary

Recently I did a personality test that said my profile is artistic, social, enterprising

I looked for artistic jobs, I was interested to be a sewer but there are not a lot of jobs out there

In the social I saw Optician and I already saw this job when looking for stress free jobs

I need to do a two year technical degree to become Optician

I found a school in French Caribbean, it’s half school half work in a company

I need to think a bit more if I really want to do that, maybe I’ll test the job during 5 days

But because I have studies related anxiety, I’m scared I will have difficulties to do that

It’s less that what I planned before, I was planning to do a Master, but still 2 year is long

I was thinking of a training of 6 months/one year max

I don’t know

I also read on the forum that only 10% of schizophrenics work

I don’t have a diagnosis yet, and I don’t have much psychosis nowadays but I don’t have much motivation

I’m scared

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It’s a big decision

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Don’t be scared okay. You haven’t been diagnosed. Some of us do work like myself or Bowens or Nick or agent 101g

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I think that you should contact an optician and ask if you can pick their brain about what they do

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There’s an Optician in my family

I asked questions like “Is the training difficult ?” , “Do you appreciate your job”," Can I express my artistic side by being Optician",“Do Opticians stand a lot, is It tiring”

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Opticians study people’s eyes to see what type of lens to use for their glasses, correct? Will that be something that excites you? You should feel invested in what you do

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Opticians can do an eye test, know what type of glasses you should put depending on your face, can read the ophtalmologist prescription, check if your insurance pays the glasses

I think it could be interesting as I would do diverse things

There are original glasses in French Caribbean, I would be glad to help people choose beautiful glasses

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Ok sounds like a cool idea

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I went to school 17.5 years. If I could redo it I’d do a good factory job. No job has security and to constantly train for years and go in debt for no job security sounds foolish to me now.

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best of luck choosing a career

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Thank you,POET :blush:

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I think it’s never too late to chase your dreams.

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Im.tired of becoming something. Just be yourself

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Thank you everyone that encouraged me

While learning more and more things about Optician I wanted more and more to do that

But I learned it’s considered like a health pro and that they were forced to vaccine during COVID so they would keep their job

So I need to choose another job :smiling_face_with_tear:

If some of you have ideas as artistic, social jobs that doesn’t need a too long training don’t hesitate to tell me your ideas

I thought about game master, app tester but I don’t see job offers in French Caribbean