y
ou don't care how many hours
you work, you're satisfied with
your pay and you eat stress for
breakfast. The bottom line is
that you really like — or even
love — your job, in spite of the pressure
and the demanding schedule, and regardless
of your tax bracket. That said, a few other
factors in your professional life have the
potential to seriously dampen your enthusi-
asm.
Those are just a few of the takeaways from
this year's Outpatient Surgery salary survey.
The good news? More than three-fourths of
our readers say they're happy with what they
do. That's as opposed to the less than 1 in 10
who feel the job is more frustrating than
rewarding, or that in retrospect, they wish
they'd chosen a different career path.
But there are issues to con-
sider — ones that can
bring people down,
maybe the people
Work-Life
Forget money and stress. When it comes to job
satisfaction, nothing matters more than being
able to juggle the demands of a career and a
personal life. Jim Burger | Senior Editor
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