Actuary Career Information : Actuary Pros & Cons

[royalrobert]

LMAO, this is very helpful. Funny, but helpful. She basically admitted that actuaries are socially awkward. HILARIOUS!

[ilovebees3]

Actuarial profession sucks. Your work is essentially limited to Insurance companies who are penny pinching blood suckers. There are many unemployed actuaries including Fellows. With their limited training (i.e to Insurance related fields) they are stuck in the mud. Private consultants have the largest liability exposure of any job. Many "consultants" are basicaly unemployed, but use that term to disguise their situation. I know of no actuary who recommends their children become actuaries.

[Leeyooo]

Guys plz hepl me, i got a qustion. If i becoem an acturay in sweden, can i thank move to londom for example and start working there as an acturay?, in other words, i take the exam in sweden, wrok in london

[emiilyfights]

@Leeyooo Yes, but there will be more exams so you might have to work out where you do the rest of your exams. Also, depends how many jobs there are in London for actuaries - I mean, London is a popular place, lots of people want to move to and work there.

[ActSciBlink]

I just wrote my first exam in August and they are hard. I have to retake it in February. But the  material is interesting. Good luck! :)

[MAT3RO1]

I'm 16 as well, and I'm interested in such a career. I really want to go more into math after high school but I'm a junior and still taking geometry 1-2 due to messing up freshmen year. But I've gotten my act right, and I want to get to loe math. I'm just confused on what to do from here...

[nikanj]

Does anyone know what the hours are like in this profession? It's it mad like investment banking hours?

[zvamada]

@nikanj it is such an open profession, depends where you want to work really

[dbor009]

I have seriously considered entering the profession... the problem in my country (NZ) it is fiercely competitive and there are not many allocations available in a give year. I am 26 and have only seriously looked at using my Stats major in this profession for a year. WizardLim11, you are in a great position to pursue the profession as you are still very young and I would encourage you to start on the road NOW. The difficult part about the exams in my opinion is time management.

[fireking345]

@dbor009

hello Dbor ive just recently graduated and going into stats major too hoping to give actuary a crack...

do you have any tips or experiences in how hard or easy it can be?

[dbor009]

If you wanted to do the Actuary thing, I would encourage you to probably do a Stats/Math double major (maybe with some economics/finance) or even better, do an Actuarial Science degree. The actuarial degree can give you some credits for the Societal exams and will give you a greater chance of getting a job...I haven't done any Actuarial exams but a tip would be to study very hard and be consistent... it helps to be good with math, very good, so make sure you keep this up.

[nepatriots77]

The one major thing that I hate about this job is dealing with ppl. I don't want to sit around talking and arguing with ppl.

[WizardLim11]

i hope i can b an actuary..i'm still 16.. is actuary's exams hard? my friends said that the life of an actuary is very stressful...=.="

[Dejital]

This is very helpful thank you