Mike Gabler is now the Sole Survivor in Season Forty three of 'Survivor.' Gabler mentioned his job as a heart valve specialist with 'Distractify.'

Spoiler alert: This article comprises spoilers for Season 43 of Survivor.

Nearly six months after Season 42 concluded with Maryanne Oketch's landslide victory, Survivor topped its new winner, Mike "Gabler." He took home the crown and the million-dollar prize but determined to donate his winnings as a substitute of cashing the check.

Throughout the 43rd season of the long-running CBS series, viewers were given to fulfill the 18 competitors who began their Survivor journeys in both the Baka, Vesi, or Coco tribes.

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At Fifty one years outdated (when the season was once filmed; he is now 52), Gabler was the oldest particular person in the cast, and now is the second-oldest winner ever in Survivor historical past.

Aside from his age, Gabler broke a number of data, together with breaking the fire-making record and then choosing to donate his whole winnings to the Veterans in Need Foundation. Naturally, we can't help but wonder what his job is and how much cash he makes that he can donate $1 million.

In an unique interview with Distractify, Gabler unfolded about his career and how it helped him win Survivor.

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What is Mike Gabler's job? The 'Survivor' winner works as a center valve specialist.

Gabler in the beginning hails from Houston, Texas, but he currently lives in Meridian, Idaho, the place he works as an aneurysm and trans-catheter center valve specialist. He is a territory manager for trans-catheter heart valves at Edwards Lifesciences, a scientific technology corporate. He's worked for Edwards Lifesciences for more than 11 years, but he's worked within the business for over 20 years.

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"Not only am I not a surgeon, I'm not a doctor," he confirmed to Distractify. "I'm not a veteran and I'm not a doctor, but I have a weird job. I work with a company called Edwards Lifesciences and they are the world's leading heart valve maker. But they don't just mail them in to [a hospital] and then [doctors] just put it in. So I work with these heart teams."

Gabler does sit within the working room throughout surgical procedures, often proper next to the lead surgeon. "There's nurses and techs, and there's a whole bulk community of us that [do] these cases, and then I look at them and we look at the CT scans," he defined. "We figure out the access vessels and I put together a plan and make my suggestions. In the procedure, I help with the heart valve and hand it off to the doctor as they put it into the patient."

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Gabler's job in reality did give him the preparation he had to play and win Survivor.

"You've got all different types of people on the team. And ... you're in a room with 12 people," he mentioned. "And for me, every room I work in is different. Sometimes it's more of a happy-go-lucky room. Sometimes it's a very serious room. We all have to work together very well under stress. And we have to win for the patient."

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"[My job] really helped me because I can bond with all different types of people and I can work well under pressure," he endured. "I also like to stay positive in those situations when things are falling apart so that we don't turn on each other."

Since Gabler is giving up his $1 million prize, other people wish to know what his internet worth is.

Typically, after any person wins Survivor, their web price shoots up to $1 million. However, in Gabler's state of affairs, that's not reasonably the case. He's decided to donate A hundred percent of his winnings, which means that that his private checking account may not move up at all from profitable Survivor. Even nonetheless, he must be doing beautiful nicely off if he is in a position to give up his well-earned prize.

While we don't know needless to say what Gabler's internet worth is, there are some reported estimations of anywhere between $100K to $1 million.

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Mike Gabler

Heart Valve Specialist, 'Survivor 43' Winner

Net price: Between $100,000 and $1 million

Mike "Gabler" won Survivor 43, however determined to donate his whole winnings to the Veterans in Need Fund in honor of his father.

Birthplace: Houston, Texas

Birthdate: Sept. 4, 1970

Education: Bond University

Marriage: Joanna Gabler

Children: Two daughters

However, Mike Gabler is similar to any people. The average salary at Edwards Lifesciences for a heart valve specialist is $78,805, so while Gabler probably makes more than this after running with them for such a very long time, he is nowhere close to the upper echelon of the American categories. He said during the Survivor finale that he is been very lucky and made a just right life for himself and his family, but he nonetheless has house payments and price range to fret about.

Regardless, congrats to Gabler!

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