About the only situation where you’ll be in a surgery heavy deal is with an OD comanagement type practice (I believe one of these types of practices was Omni, years ago) or as a “LASIK cowboy/girl” for a LASIK center like TLC (if these type of places even exist anymore).
As far as the OD type place, I was approached by an OD group, when I was finishing residency about being their surgeon. One OD would take the lead and organize all these ODs to refer into their “center of excellence” where the pts would be screened and then I would do their cataract surgery. That’s pretty much all I would’ve been doing every day. As much as I loved cataract surgery, this felt sketchy to me so I didn’t take it….plus, I really, really wanted to do retina over everything else.
Also, there appear to be a lot of locums jobs. This is based on the random emails I get about places needing coverage. Probably not a bad gig if you don’t mind living out of a suitcase. Not sure how much PP pay for these. The locums companies are the ones making a killing. Whatever the locums company does not pay you, they keep as profit, so their goal is to pay you as little as possible. Instead of using one of these locums companies, you may consider advertising yourself on the AAO professional choices website as a “candidate available for one year” to see if any practices are looking for coverage