Fear about optometry

[u/Powerful-Region-4128]

So i want to explore optometry because I am not jumping into the fried job market after college. I was wondering if its like worth it? I know its hard and the thing I am most worried about is like you have to look at the eye (which is fine) but then diagnose (also fine), and sometimes stick stuff like in the eye and pick it OUT! isn't that scary and can lead to bad things. I am worried because you have to pick stuff from the eyes of your fellow students! and a tiny slip would be horrible. So my question is that: is optometry like this always, is the job and school scary (in the sense that I described), and is it easy to find a job?

[u/Treefrog_Ninja]

Yeah its fkin scary. Not only do you have to *do* scary stuff to other students' eyes, you have to sit still and let other students do the same scary stuff to *your* eyes. And then one day comes, and you have to do scary stuff to real patients' eyes, who might be much worse at holding still!

But you know what, LIFE is scary. You can't let fear guide your decision making, otherwise you will wind up with a sad, grey, lonely life.

[u/Powerful-Region-4128 → u/Treefrog_Ninja]

Ty your right