Optician Apprentice. Salary: $22,000 

You're fresh out of high school and starting under the tutelage of a wise old optician―the type with tiny little glasses sitting on the edge of their nose. While you still think the line between bifocals and trifocals is a bit blurry, you're learning a lot.

Novice Optician. Salary: $35,000 

Having completed your apprenticeship, you land a job at an office across town. It's taking a little more time than you thought to get used to your prankster of a boss (he likes to wear those gimmicky eyeballs-on-springs glasses every now and then), but you're settling in nicely.

Optician Five-Years Experience. Salary: $45,000 

You can predict Dr. Feelgood's pranks before he even attempts them. You let him follow through, though, because it makes the office environment a little more fun. You've reorganized the filing system and pushed to get more contemporary frames in stock, as those 1970s horn-rimmed frames have just been sitting around forever.

Managing Optician. Salary: $62,000 

Not only have you been promoted to manager of your shop, you got the contact lens certification and have been more hands-on with fittings. Your shop's doing really well thanks to your tight inventory management, and you've even pranked Dr. Feelgood on more than one occasion, much to his surprise.

Frame shop owner. Salary: $90,000 

You bought the shop when Dr. Feelgood decided to retire. You've hired on a new ophthalmologist, albeit one with less of a sense of humor, and currently have two opticians in apprenticeship. You're trying to keep the pranking spirit alive by putting a fake spider in the new guy's brown-bag lunch. Let's hope he takes it well.