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Bifocals for Line Cooks

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I am trying to use bifocals on the line to read tickets. The only problem is that the magnified part of the lens is at the bottom of the frame. When reading a book one generally looks down. When reading tickets, I'm looking straight forward. This requires me to tilt my head way back to align my eyes through the magnified portion on the lenses. Not comfortable at all.

Any ideas?

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I am an eye doc first and home cook second. Couple of questions for you. How far away are the tickets you are looking at? Arm's length? More like normal reading distance of 18 or so inches? How high or low are the tickets you are reading? Right at eye level or just above or below. How much distance vision do you use when working? Do you need to see things across the room clearly a fair amount of the time of it most of what you do more within arm's length? Do you normally wear glasses for distance? If you don't mind me asking, roughly how old are you?

There are limits as to what glasses can do. If you wore something that gives you good near and intermediate vision you should be able to see the tickets and the work in front of you but if you look across the room it would be blurry. If the tickets you are looking at are a little above eye level they do make glasses with bifocals on the top. They are called occupational segments. A lot of mechanics and HVAC peeps wear them because they have to look up to see what they are working on and they can't tilt their head back far enough to see thru regular bifocals. I'll wait to see some of the answers and I'll keep an eye on this thread to see if I can come up with some ideas for you.

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I'm 61.
The tickets are a tiny bit below eye level, 12-18" away.
The bifocals are clear on the top. I can see distance no problem.
I need to switch between reading tickets and talking to people across the room.
Perhaps the long shape of my face is placing my eyes a little above the lens line.

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From your description is sounds like the bifocals may be set a bit too low in the frames. You should be able to look thru the bifocal part without having to tip you head back excessively. Do your glasses tend to slip down on your nose while working? Do your glasses have the little nose pieces on them? If so, you can sometimes pinch them together a bit to raise the glasses up a bit so you don't have to look so far down to get into the bifocal. Presbyopia (the need for glasses for near as we get older) sucks and there is no magic cure, but there are way around it. Did you ever wear contact lenses? There are some people who wear just one contact in the non-dominant eye to make is nearsighted so they can see up close without having to mess with bifocals.
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If the wheel or line where the tickets are is higher up, I can understand the situation.
The idea of the bifocals being higher up on your glasses is a great idea .
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In general, if you hold your head level and look straight ahead into a mirror, the upper line of the bifocal should be about even with your lower lid.
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