Brain surgeon with 6-figure salary dumps hospital job to work as Amazon sales girl A former assistant brain surgeon who earned a six-figure salary has revealed why she left the operating theatre for a job at an Amazon warehouse. Helen Xu, 31, from Brisbane’s south, began her medical career in 2018, working as an assistant surgeon at a hospital in Queensland, reports Daily Mail on Sunday. However, when the Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2020, her workload intensified, with shifts lasting up to 30 hours. Without children or elderly relatives to care for, Xu...