BANGALORE: If high salary and high stress are the two decisive factors for a job-seeker, a recent online survey by job portal Monster India has favoured the ones who look out for high paying salaries, no matter how stressful they are.

Driven by a desire to be successful and to make more money, more people are now ready to take on more stressful job functions and work longer hours, the survey has revealed.

The survey found out that 41 per cent of the respondents would settle for high stress jobs in lieu of higher pay scales. Sixteen per cent even said that they do not have a successful job.

The survey was part of Monster Meter, a series of online polls to gauge the opinions of the website users on various topics. But there enough number of respondents, who were ready to take on less stressful jobs.

The survey revealed that 34 per cent of the respondents would accept a cut of up to 15 per cent in their salaries if the job was less stressful. Nine per cent said they would actually opt for a cut in salary higher than 15 per cent to get a less stressful job.

The results of the survey were based on 8,355-plus votes cast by Monster users between October 6 and 20, 2005 on the monsterindia.com job search page. Only one vote per user was counted in the final tabulation. But in the final analysis, the portal's key people saw a trend where people wanted to take the fast track to the top.

Success, they found, was increasingly being measured by visible professional achievements.

However, it was also acknowledged that there still remained a set of employees who valued a balance between work and life more than money and professional achievements that additional stress was supposed to bring.

That a third of the people surveyed by the portal opted for a less stressful but low-paying job was proof enough of this.

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