Letters: Time to make a change

Many of my non-industry friends have, at one time or another, suggested or even assumed that the role of optometrist is a boring, repetitive job where I perform one eye test after another.

Up until five years ago, I didn’t put a lot of effort into disagreeing with them. Clinics often felt like something to endure, rather than enjoy and the seemingly endless ‘better with, without, or just the same’ conversations didn’t help. Groundhog days of over 20 tests in a busy daily clinic with fractious colleagues aggrieved after being told their conversion rates, average order value and audiology referrals weren’t up to scratch wasn’t what I thought I had spent four years studying for.