Where do I fit ?
There are 2 kinds of responses people have when they ask what I do as a living and I tell them I am an actuary…One response is “A what ?” The other response is “Wow, you must be smart.” Both responses are quite challenging. In both cases, I don’t know what to answer. To the first response, I answer something like “I make insurance products work.” I don’t know if that helps, but that’s the shortest I can come up with. To the second response, it’s even harder to find an answer. Am I smart? The reality is that you rarely feel smart when you’re sitting an actuarial exam. I would feel really good after a Maths exam in high school, but unfortunately I never had the same kind of inner confidence when I sat actuarial exams. I ‘felt’ smarter when I was in high school than when I was doing my exams to be an actuary. Am I smart? I am smart enough to know that being smart is not all there is in order to move forward in life. Sometimes you don’t need to be smart, you need to be assertive, or you ...