TFW actuary major >Asked my cousins and female coworkers if

>>39053064
>coworkers dont know what you do
>even though they work with you and some may even have similar jobs

Think I found the real problem here

>>39053119

Read the first line

FONEPOSTER BASTARD

Women don't give a fuck about what you do at your job, just as long as you express interest in doing it.

My SO doesn't understand jack shit about software development. She's seen me write some stuff at home and her eyes basically crossed. But she knows I like it and that's good enough for her.

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>>39053358
>But she knows im bringing home beta bux and that's good enough for her.

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>>39053064
Have you passed the FM yet? Also starring is lower than that although six figures are far from uncommon for an actual fellow. SOA or CAS?

>>39053064
>"It's like probability statistics finance stuff. I work for insurance companies."

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>>39053988
>Insurance? I hate insurance companies, theyre a big scam

>>39053988

What sounds better for a chick? I work in risk management or I work in finance, on the math side

>>39054024
Why does it matter, any girl who cares about your career that much is in it for beta bux

>>39054093

Well you still have to somewhat impress them

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>>39054119
>WelI you still have to somewhat impress them

I'm considering becoming an actuary. Would a guy be turned off if a girl was one, should I stick to basic accounting or find something completely different?

>>39054212

Not gonna lie, there were 7 girls who started with me, only one is still here, after 2 years. She's Chinese

>>39054006
>"I'm the guy that makes these scams happen"

>>39054024
Finance+math. Because that's, like, hard and stuff.

>>39053358
But does she love you enough to write herself in Perl and R and present it to you?

>>39054263
>>39054024
Finance has only baby math, lets be real here

>>39054295
True, but saying you work in finance as a banker turns on women more than saying you're a risk manager for insurance companies

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>>39053064
LOL YOU HAVEN'T EVEN PASSED THE P-EXAM DUDE, LMAO AT YOUR LIFE DUDE.

>>39054295
Lol let me guess, engineer calling actuarial mathematics "baby math"?

Classic

>>39054366
>he thinks Im not a patrician-tier qaunt
>>39054344
you know what turns women on?

height, face, frame

money just gets you beta bux

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>>39054366
Yeah nothing harder than obvious pdfs, time series, and Markov chains dude. Topos theory is hard. Complex Analysis is hard. Actuarial math is easy unless you're bad at math in the first place. The fact that it is harder than whatever civil engineers use doesn't make it hard.

>>39053064
>Major
Lmao'ing at your life right now. Pure math major alumni master race. I bet you're still a freshman faggot.

>>39053064
Go back to China and find yourself a wife, chinaman

>>39053064
I can relate OP, I'm also an actuary major, and it's annoying having to explain what it is to people.
I usually just say I'm majoring in something to do with math to simplify it for people.

>>39054494
>Pure math major

So not an ounce of social skills

>>39054212
Lol not unless you're actually smart
What uni?

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>>39053064
How do you guys do it?

I heard the math is crazy hard, at least in term of studying.

A HS friend of mine on his way to become an actuary told me 1 hour in an actuary exam other than the first one with easy algebra and calculus and shit, takes around more or less 100 hours of studying for one to reliably scoring a passing grade (each one is around 3 hours and can go up to 5 hours if I remember right). And he says there are 8 to take for one to become a real actuary.

What makes me anxious about choosing that path back when I was choosing my major is that the firm you end up work for, if you ever end up getting hired at all first place, with job market saturation and all, can actually terminate you if you fail a same exam twice along your way. It triggers the fuck out of my exam phobia.

And also, that particular friend of mine is doing very well in the game of life. He's just finished his second year and he's already passed 5 exams, sounds insane to me, but I guess that's what it takes to secure your odds today, and he's doing an internship working in one of those tall office building downtown already, all the while, I spend my days redoing the classes that I've failed, jerking off and shitpost, right now I'm only equivalent of a 1st year in term of courses completed, and equivalent of an absolute retard in term of GPA.

Sometimes, I wonder what have gone with me since HS, back then I actually have had much better math grades than him without even really trying. It doesn't help that my other close friends in HS are doing med school or engineering now, our paths have strayed so far away (me and them).

>>39054533
I'm the 1% of pure math major that is a normie.

Feels good man

>>39054572
Do you at least have a plan for what exactly you will be doing with a pure math major? Do you plan on getting a masters or Phd?

>>39054555
If you have exam phobia then that's probably a problem. I personally love exams, especially when I study for them.

>>39054679
I already am in the industry as a data analyst.

I want to go back because I actually miss school. If I wanted to do it big, I'd go for my phd in math to work in finance.

If I want to go for /comfy/ living, I want to do MBA in finance.

>>39054706
Is 5 exams completed by the end of your 2nd year in Uni a norm now in order to be employable?

I didn't want to ask too much about the details because I guess it would suck to have other people seeing your potential future career as your new persona.

>>39054812
I'm not sure as I'm just majoring myself. My adviser didn't mention anything about needing to have completed 8 of the exams to become an actuary, so I don't think it's necessary.

>>39054932
Ah, I mean as in receiving the full title or something. Of course, I know that most actuaries start off their actuary career having completed 1-3 exams.

I just want to know if my friend is a bit crazy obsessed for completing 5 of them by the end of his second year at uni.

I'm doing exam p in september. Any tips?

>>39055031
Not that guy but 5 exams before any work/internship is overkill. After the first few exams, work experience is more valuable than exams imo

>>39055031
I'm pretty sure your friend is a bit obsessed for completing 5 by the end of the second year, but if he can handle that then there's no reason not to go for it I guess. I don't know about a full title, the impression I got was that there's just different levels based on how many exams you've completed.

>>39055143
>>39055176

I see, thank you. This relieves me a bit, I was starting to feel that was the norm and I'm just absolutely incompetent, which is probably still true despite he's among the anomaly.

>>39055368
I have a friend in actuarial science that told me the senior capstone for the program is preparation for the first exam, and from what I understand taking them while still in school is mostly unheard of. I'm actually considering changing my major to it myself and I'm only starting my sophomore year, so I'm sure you're fine. I think it's pretty fair in saying your friend is obsessed lol

>>39054554
Illinois State

>>39053064
No one actually cares about how cool life as a banker is. No one wants to sit down and listen to you talk about your spreadsheets and pitch books.

They think the money is cool. If you actually become and actuary and develop a nice lifestyle for yourself that will be that. Conspicuous consumption, my friend. It won't attract good people, but it sounds like you aren't interested in good people.