I wouldn't worry, I got put on said dispensing degree and I was still only earning £10500 a year.
Other fun facts for folk: the cost price of a designer (i.e. upwards of £150) pair of glasses will usually come to about £30 for parts at the most, and probably about £5 for labour if the labs I've worked in are typical examples.
Live up north, near the border? Hop over into Scotland. Free eye test ahoy (or it used to be, anyway).
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Sat 25 Feb 2012, 23:17, 2 replies)

Or, once you are over 40
Just say your dad had glucoma. There is no way they can check up.
Just gen up on the symptoms.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 25 Feb 2012, 23:49, closed)

Glaucoma?

(Blahh, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 0:58, closed)

I know what you mean,
but they didn't see it.
(ToMeToYou is bumming a Unicorn on, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 2:34, closed)

That's the bastard.
I care not as because I'm a minus 10 I get my tests free anyway.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sun 26 Feb 2012, 16:58, closed)

Ha ha
£30 for parts?

Try about £4. That's the good ones. The cheap ones are about a quid.
(username failed moderation, Mon 27 Feb 2012, 11:03, closed)

Well played on showing that you know fuck all, here.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Mon 27 Feb 2012, 16:19, closed)

You're right
My brother in law, who I have worked with on an ad hoc basis for the last 10 years only sold quarter of a million pairs of glasses last year.

What would I know?
(username failed moderation, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 9:53, closed)

I think we are confusing wholesale and retail here.
Play nicely and stop willy waving.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Tue 28 Feb 2012, 23:03, closed)

ha ha ha
BraynDedd doesn't have a willy
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 11:49, closed)