My Optometry Personal Statement

I can’t say I have always known and loved optometry, but I have always known my love of people. Since I was young, I would love to talk to new people, and enjoy being around people. Working in the restaurant field for over ten years, I have learned a lot about communicating effectively, being sensitive toward others, and how to make them feel comfortable in a new environment. I have always wanted to have a career involving myself around people.
During college, after a year of growth and learning I realized that the health care field was where I wanted to be. Originally, I was seeking a degree in physical therapy. I had a chance to work in an office volunteering and shadowing for a semester, and I decided that I loved patient care, but physical therapy wasn’t my
After college, I had the opportunity to work in an optometry office. My first thought upon beginning this job was that I loved being able to use my knowledge from my degree and be involved in people and making their lives better. As I became more educated on contacts, insurance, vision therapy, and low vision I knew I wanted to be involved even more. Over the months working there, I really began to open my eyes to how rewarding, and fast paced optometry can be. Working one on one with people, and seeing what positive things optometrists can do has been so inspiring. My turning point in which I decided to pursue optometry as a career was witnessing a child walk out of the office with new glasses, and realizing there were leaves on the trees and they weren’t big blobs. Growing up with fairly good vision I was not aware of how vision can affect children when developing in life and particularly in school. The child cried from excitement and I was forever changed because I saw his