Lewis Jacobs has had a successful career as a contact lens optician and practice owner. But, he says, winning a first class degree in optometry as a mature student has been his greatest achievement. Georgina Fuller reports
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The prospect of an office job did not appeal and Jacobs felt he wanted to help people with their eye-sight.
After leaving school with disappointing A level results – ‘I really mucked them up’ – Jacobs embarked on a two-year dispensing opticians course at the former City and East London college. He earned an Association of British Dispensing Opticians honours qualification in 1976. He began working as a contact lens optician at Neil Gordon in East London and opened his first practice in nearby Plaistow in 1981.
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