- Hello and welcome to the outside
of the Laramy-K OpticianWorks Training Center.
Decided a couple weeks ago that my old,
trusty Costa sunglasses were due for a replacement.
They're about five, six years old, pretty scratched up
and of course now that I work for a lab
I have to make them myself.
Figured I'd turn it into a lesson.
Well, things didn't work out quite the way I had planned.
(inspirational electronic music)
As always I begin this with the very best of intentions,
but, well, I'll just let you watch and see what happened.
(device humming and beeping)
(device gears whir)
(drill cutting)
(drill spins down)
(bleep)
It was at that very moment that I decided
I was going to do something about this problem
once and for all, so it was time for a trip to Lowe's.
(energetic rock music)
Well after all of that I was back on track, back in business
but I had kind of lost my train of thought
and just went ahead and made myself a pair of sunglasses.
(motor buzzing) (groovy music)
I picked up this frame at Sam's Club
and in it I put our Laramy-K single vision Trivex
polarized gray C with our TKO blue flash mirror.
I could not be more pleased with the way they turned out.
(camera shutter snapping)
(shoes stumbling on floor)
Oh, you're still here.
Hi, um, you're probably waiting for me
to say something profound
and make this into a lesson of some kind.
Let me see if I can.
If you go to the about section on OpticianWorks
for people that are thinking about becoming opticians,
I have a line that says, what makes a great optician?
Do you have some mechanical ability?
Can you work with basic hand tools?
Do you know the difference between a nut and a bolt?
After that it says, do you have patience?
Can you really stick with something difficult
and see it through?
Well I think that's kind of what the lesson
we can take away from today.
Being an optician does require
some mechanical skills sometimes.
Some days are gonna be tough
and some days you really do just have to stick
with a difficult problem.
Sometimes actually for days, but it's part of the job
and part of what makes it rewarding.
(energetic rock music)