People become actuaries when they don’t have a good enough personality to be an accountant.
That certainly describes my friend’s son-in-law. He passed all the exams but scored zero on the personality tests.
But at least now I can ask him “,,,so he is now actually an actual Actuary?”
Actuaries are a different breed. I worked with one who had to have his heart removed to fix a known aneurysm and he’d tell you about how having a child was higher risk then his surgery.
After he got back from his surgery, I caught him in the hallway and asked him how he was doing. He proceeded to take off his suit jacket, tie and his shirt to show me his scar.
Smartest people in an insurance company but also the oddest. Our old neighbor’s father was an actuary and in his apartment, she said he had one plate, cup, fork knife etc. Just didn’t see the need for having more than one of anything. He also had to do his calisthenics at the same time everyday. If he was traveling in a car, he’d stop, do his exercises, finish and continue on.
I think a lot of them are on the Asperger high end functionality.
That’s for darn sure. Or they are full of themselves.
In 30 years in insurance, I know ONE actuary who was fun.
i passed the first two exams with no problem. It was the interview I couldn’t pass.
I thought there were quite a few personality questions in the interviews: what was your most satisfying experience, biggest disappointment, what do you do for fun, etc.
Now interviews for other jobs were like that too - so I don’t know that you need more personality than anywhere else - but they were definitely looking for personality traits that I didn’t have.