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| 1225.1 | Picking up in the middle of the conversation | VMSDEV::HALLYB | Twin Peaks Municipal Software Works | Mon Apr 23 1990 09:31 | 12 |
| That was an idea I had for a long time, since I enjoy statistics.
For one thing the Society of Actuaries didn't publicize things very
well; you're supposed to take the first test at the end of your 2nd
year in college. I never even heard of the process until I was a
senior and going on to grad school. There was also a problem with a
war in Vietnam, a low draft number (66), and that II-S deferment.
I think I might have taken a shot at actuaryship (?) if I had had
advance warning -- starting the first semester in college -- of just
what the process was. There was nothing at my school, San Jose State.
John
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| 1225.2 | why I am not an actuary | CSSE::NEILSEN | I used to be PULSAR::WALLY | Mon Apr 23 1990 12:05 | 12 |
| Was this topic meant to be a reply to another topic?
Anyway...
When I was in high school, the society of actuaries distributed a test which all
the good math students took. I did not do all that well, which is the first
reason. Second, there was no talk of $90K (or even its 1960 equivalent), just
a lot of guff about how important actuaries were to Western Civilization.
Third, I was dead set on being a Scientist (with the upper case) then, and
no other career interested me. Fourth, I very foolishly regarded statistics
as tedious and dull. Even allowing for the fact that back then computers had
vacuum tubes and calculators had hand cranks, this was naive of me.
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| 1225.3 | | HPSTEK::XIA | In my beginning is my end. | Mon Apr 23 1990 14:33 | 4 |
| There were the days when we were young,
And drunk with Nobel rum.
Eugene
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| 1225.4 | IMHO: | CHOVAX::YOUNG | Cuppa Jo and a donut? | Tue Apr 24 1990 00:14 | 9 |
| Well my college DID offer the test, I DID know about it and I WAS
well aware of the big-time money associated with it.
BUT... knowing what I did then about statistics and how actuaries have
to apply it, I considered it nothing more than second-order accounting
(read ...BORING!). I know a lot more about it today, but unlike
others,... I *STILL* think that it is BORING!
-- Barry
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