Optician

Duties and responsibilities: Opticians are eye care professionals who select and fit contacts and eyeglasses for patients. After an ophthalmologist writes a prescription, opticians take eye measurements and determine how a patient's occupation, lifestyle and facial features affect his or her eye wear needs.

Salary: The median pay is $34,340.

Education: You must have a high school diploma with on the job training or apprenticeship; certificate, associate’s degree or bachelor’s degree for opticianry for career advancement.  

Demand for this profession: The demand for this profession is to grow 24% from 2014-2024.

Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why? Why not?

I think I would like to be one because they have good pay and I would like to learn more about how the eye works.

“Many think that the short term gain will be worth the long term pain, but it isn’t. In addition, using steroids is cheating, and there is nothing worse in sports than a cheater. Don’t do it.”

What this quote is trying to say is to not cheat. You can’t do something wrong and feel good about it. For example, you can’t cheat on a test because sooner or later you're going to feel guilty that you did it. It’s not fair to everyone else who actually did study for the test. If you didn’t study, you didn’t study. Don’t cheat because you don’t want to get a bad grade. You should use that as a lesson for next time. Maybe next time you will study and feel good that you got a good score on the test rather than cheating for answer. If you don’t get a question, don’t turn to your neighbor and risk both of you guys getting caught. Instead move on to the next one and come back to it if you have time. Cheating isn’t the answer to anything. Whether it’s in a game, or a sport, or a relationship. Don’t do it at all. In life, not everything is a game. You don’t have to win at everything. By cheating you prove to yourself that you can’t accomplish something by yourself. For example, if you cheat your way through college studying to be a nurse. When you get assigned a patient, you're going to be completely lost. If you just “wing” it, you might end up doing something wrong. There goes your life as a nurse. You will have to go back to college and actually learn something. Don’t cheat, for everything will all end up bad.

Non-Medical/ Health Volunteer Opportunities

Some non-medical volunteer opportunities are:

• Volunteer tutoring in East LA. The address is 4914 E Cesar E Chavez Ave in Los Angeles, CA 90002.
• Foster Program Support for Wags and Walks. This will be held at 2616 Sepulveda Blvd. in Los Angeles, CA 90064.
• Breathe easy asthma awareness 5k run/walk and kids fun. This event will be held on May 20, 2017 from 8:30 am to 12:30 in the afternoon. The address is 3353 Redondo Beach Blvd. in Los Angeles, CA 90260.
• LA youth at work Volunteers. The address for this opportunity is 350 S Bixel St. in Los Angeles, CA 90017.
• Volunteers needed for a cycling event in Long Beach Tuesday 5/16 and Wednesday 5/17. This opportunity will be held at 7550 E Spring St. In Los Angeles, CA 90815.

To volunteer for these positions you must go to their website

https://www.volunteermatch.org/search/index.jsp?l=Long+Beach%2C+CA%2C+USA and click on the volunteer work you want to do. After you click on it, you will be given another website where you must register there.

“I won’t Cheat.”

-Dale Murphy

What this quote is trying to say is that you shouldn’t cheat no matter what idea comes to your mind. If you're playing a game, you should play the game by the rules. Cheating isn’t something good. You shouldn’t cheat no matter what. Whether it’s on a game, or a sport, or in a relationship, don’t do it. If the other person catches you, they will no longer want to play against you and they probably won’t talk or forgive you for what you did. If you win or lose, it shouldn’t matter as long as you know you went out and played. Don’t let cheating be the pathway to success. Taking that pathway, you're going to come into a lot of bumps in the road. Maybe even stops, wrong turns, U-turns anything. Don’t make your pathway like that. Follow the pathway of your dreams. Strive for that goal that you been wanting to accomplish since you were little. Show the people that cheated their way into college that you did it no matter what. Be proud of who you are. If you have friends that you know is all about cheating, then maybe you should reconsider having them as friends. They won’t lead you anywhere but down the path of wrong choices.

“Character Matters Most.”

-Dale Murphy

What this quotes is trying to say is that your character determines how you act. For example, you can’t play a game if you're going to play unfairly. You shouldn’t cheat on something because you don’t get what to do on the quiz or you don’t know how to play the game. Play fairly and you should be good. Would you like it if someone you were playing against cheated and you lost. Nobody knew he cheated but you. Would like it if he did that to you? Would you think he played fair? You would probably be mad. Lying, cheating, doing drugs, drinking alcohol that isn’t going to take you nowhere. Maybe to jail for intoxication but that’s it. You won’t get a job, a house, a career because you have a bad record when you were younger. Focus on you and you do what is right for you. If you follow your friends that sneak out and go to parties to drink, will they lead you down the path of success? Or will they lead you down a path with dips and bumps in the road. Chose who you want to put in your car to college and a good future. Don’t chose the ones that will have you make a lot of wrongs turns along the way.

St. Patrick’s Day

Who was St. Patrick?

• St. Patrick, the saint patron of Ireland, is one of Christianity’s most widely known figure.

What is the purpose?

• The purpose of St. Patrick’s day is to celebrate the day St. Patrick passed away.

When is St. Patrick’s Day?

• St. Patrick’s day is celebrated on the 17th of March.

Why a certain color?

• We wear green on St. Patrick’s day because many people believed the color green made us “invisible” to leprechauns or fairies that tried to pinch anyone not wearing the specific color.

“It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today.”

What this quote is trying to say is that no matter what your decisions determine your DESTINY! If you choose to do wrong throughout your life then your future isn’t going to looks so bright. You will wish you never laid your hands on drugs and never had the first taste of alcohol. When you see your friends and how successful they are, you will wish to be in their place. Chose wisely what you want to do in life. For example, if you want to go out and steal, then you must suffer the consequences of getting caught and going to jail.