Electrician or othertrades experience? Need similar job/hobby experience or suggest for research

Hi there

As I see it, you might would prefer different lens for your work and for your outdoor stuff, but no matter what it is always a difficult choice.

I sell air compressors, welders and stuff like that for a living, and I repair them myself. Beside that I often work on motorcycles and do other metal work, so I guess it requires about the same vision as you need for your work.

I have two different iols, one edof and one trifocal.

I can tell you for sure, that the monofocal will not give you enough near vision to your job without reading glasses. If you can accept to wear reading glasses at work, monofocals with glasses would give you good vision for your work, but if you would prefer not to wear glasses at work, you need the trifocal.

I don´t use glasses when I am in my workshop, the trifocal gives all the vision I need.

I had a 5 weeks wait between surgeries, where I only had the edof, then I needed glasses in my workshop, the trifocal is the one that does the job.

When it comes to your outdoor activities, I think the monofocals would give you enough vision for most of your activities, and if it is important for you to look at the moon at the stars, you would probably prefer the monofocals, because the trifocals makes some weird stuff around light sources in the dark. For some people the weird visual side effects goes away within a year or so, for some people it remains.

In any case you will probably be glasses free with the trifocals, this could be an advantage for your outdoor activities, as long as you can accept the trade off with these visual side effects.

Personally I am so happy I got the trifocal, I would not trade it for anything, but we are all different, and the trade off with the visual side effects are to big a trade off for some.

Any questions, please let me know.

Hello Morgan:

I am a 52 yr old electrical engineer and contractor. I have a RESTOR 2.5D multifocal IOL in one eye. It works well for distance and intermediate vision (think reading a cell phone at full arms length). While I don't work in the field anymore, I could probably strip and terminate wiring up to #14 gauge without reading glasses (with good lighting). However, I put my glasses on (or use the reading app on my phone) to read small directions, terminate Category cabling (Cat 6 or similar), land a lighting control panel, or similar tasks.

A trifocal like Danish suggests would give you better close vision than what I have. On the other hand, I really wouldn't consider the vision I have to be an impediment to being an electrician. We're in our 50's now and most people in our age group have noticeable presbyopia. They even make bifocal safety glasses so you can read and be OSHA compliant.