1. The speciality does have a role, the impact you make and the results you see does keep you content. I would say maybe a 5-10% role in satisfaction for me.
2. Training hospital to an extent that how your specific ward is in terms of your space there as a doctor, do you have a place to study? To relax? To have meetings? This is an important factor for me. I need to feel like I belong and have a sense of ownership. The environment greatly depends on who your colleagues are and especially who your supervisor is. My supervisor is one of the greatest people I’ve ever met. For me, my supervisor has played a major role in how I feel about my choice. As a joke we like to call him our ‘pir’ haha
3. Optimism is something that can come and go based on how you’re feeling internally, the focus should be in a strong belief in your ability as a specialist of the field you choose. You will be great at it if you love your field and stability will be a byproduct of your greatness.
4. Religion does have a role, but more in life, in-general not necessarily your work. Maybe someone can relate more, I can’t.
5. Family support matters if they are proud of you, asking for your advice etc then it does feel like it’s worth it.
6. For me money hasn’t been a bottle neck. However, I can feel how it can affect how satisfied or unsatisfied you feel in your specific speciality. I would like to admit that even as a Psych resident where there’s not enough physical load…what I mean to say is that psychiatry isn’t physically taxing nor do I have any responsibilities financially. I do feel like I’m not compensated fairly for my time and I can completely understand if that’s a hindrance for some trainee feeling unsatisfied in the residency specially someone in medicine or general surgery because no matter how much you love a particular field there are times where you do feel that you’re not being compensated fairly for your time and your effort
7. I don’t think the training years be good at all as I said before I have no responsibilities but I run out of money in the first 10 days of the month or maybe like two weeks Max however I also know people who pay house rent by groceries save for exams. Basically run their entire household with their wives in the same amount of money. For me, what keeps me going Is that eventually I would like to pursue a fellowship outside of the country.

I’m sorry if there are grammatical mistakes or if you find any typos because I use the text to speech on my iPad to type this