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Pre smartphone days(1997) but when I was in college I had to get glasses to see the whiteboard at the end of the first year spent looking at monitors and a draf
by mywacaday 7y ago
Pre smartphone days(1997) but when I was in college I had to get glasses to see the whiteboard at the end of the first year spent looking at monitors and a drafting board for large periods of the day.
I spent my summers lifeguarding on a beach so three months off staring hard into the distance from 10am to 7pm 6 days a week with hardly any screen time.
When returning to college in September I could see the board without glasses for the first 2-3 months but then would revert to needing glasses.
This cycle repeated itself for several years but the time reverting to glasses got shorter each year.
Sample size of 1, YMMV
- EForEndeavour 7y agoFascinating story, and I love the implication that you were lifeguarding without glasses. I know from personal experience that bright sunlight improves visual acuity (bright images, pupil constriction, and squinting all help), so obviously you were able to do your job, but the mental image is pretty funny!
- mywacaday 7y agoI actually never though of that and had a good laugh reading your comment. I had to pass a medical with an eye test for the job so I presume I was safe. Eyesight is a complicated thing, I have one eye much worse than the other, can read the monitor fine with my right eye and not at all with my left eye. I can use a monitor OK for an hour or two with no glasses but after that I get a headache. My right eye defiantly compensates for my left.