 Hey guys, it's MJ the students actually and in this video I want to talk about the actuarial discord group that I've created. So for those of you who don't know discord It's kind of like WhatsApp, but it's much bigger and you can have some channels Let's actually just jump straight into it and you can see what I'm talking about I use discord. I mean for various crypto currencies and there's also one now on the football world cup You can see there's a whole bunch of people or over there that have subscribed to it And then they have all these channels where you can discuss the match and and do various things So I thought this would be quite cool for us actuaries So what I've done is I've created an Actuarial discord group and what we have is a bunch of channels on which you guys can have discussions around So for those of you who are new to actuarial science or wanting to get started in this amazing subject There are various channels that you can interact with there's the what subject should I study at school? What university should I choose? With actuarial science is actually right for me or not various educational resources to get you kick-started and also the various actuarial organizations and There's a lot of discussion that you can have on each one of these things And that's why I thought it's best to have separate channels as well as a general chat for for anything else Then we do get a little bit more specific. I've created a channel for each of the various core exams I've also got one on general exam technique We've also got a channel on each of the specialist exams As well as a discussion area on which one should you choose? I know a lot of actuaries have Various questions around this and we can help each other So we've also got specialist exams the fellowship exams And then for those of us who have past studying they are careers with what various job opportunities career advice continuous professional development and work-based skills and then finally we also have some fun projects Where you guys can suggest YouTube videos that I should make we can talk about crypto currencies textbooks that I can write Just your suggestions banter Investment opportunities There's a whole bunch of stuff that we can talk to around here Now the general idea for this discord group is not so that I can answer every single question on my own But the idea is that we can tap into this community and that we can help one another Look, we are actuaries. We are a very special and rare breed So I'm not expecting us to have as many people and say some of these other channels have But I reckon if we get around 100 150 people on this we can actually develop quite a nice community We can help each other out. We can use it as a big group study with the various subjects And of course if we have spare time, which very few of us do but we can look at you know making our own crypto currency or just having discussions around that and Talk about various products that are in the market or investment opportunities And we can share links and and do all that type of stuff So it is your idea is to build a community to move maybe a little bit of the discussions off of the YouTube comment section and Just flesh them out more in this this app called discord. So discord is easy to use There is I can invite you guys. So let me set this link to never expire So I'm gonna copy this gosh that almost looks like it says random Which is a very random thing on its own But it's also a core concept of actual science is understanding what randomness is anyway I'm gonna share this in the discussion link So we're gonna click copy and we're gonna paste that and you guys are free to join look Please be patient with this group. Like I said, it's only when we have around 150 people that I think it's gonna start Being meaningful. So if you like the first five people here and nothing's happening Don't despair. Hopefully with time it will go. Yeah, the users will go up and feel free to invite all your friends and Joe, I look forward to having discussions with you guys over exams Job opportunities and some fun projects that we can do in the future Anyway, I'll see you guys on discord and as always. Thanks for watching. Cheers