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I have a BA in Economics and am currently applying for an MA in Political Science. I worked for four years doing actuarial work for an insurance company after getting the BA, until I realized it was sucking the life out of me -- now I'm hoping to do something a little more useful for society. 
- Vincent
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My degree is in law (LLB). I intended to qualify as a solicitor but had glandular fever and was too ill to finish the course. So I became a legal executive instead - same work, less money. Stopped work when my mother became ill and looked after her 24/7 for several years. Didn't go back to work after she died because my IBS was very bad by then.
Before the law degree, I started a degree in Chinese Studies, but dropped out after a year and a half. I worked in a bookshop and in a Women's Aid Refuge before going back to study law.
What I'd like to do now is teach EFL and travel the world - but I'd have to be more on top of my IBS than I am at present. I want to work and I think I'm ready to try, although at my age it's harder to get job offers ...
My favourite job was in the bookshop and I think really I should have trained as a librarian - that was my vocation, but I just didn't know it!
Too often young people don't know themselves well enough to make good choices.
Josephine
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How'd you get into it? I knew an actuary...didn't seem as social/outgoing as you! Any ideas on what you'll do next?
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Formerly known as Ruchie
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How'd you get into it? I knew an actuary...didn't seem as social/outgoing as you!(Sorry for the stereotype...went to college where you could focus on actuarial studies...). Any idea what you'll do now?
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Formerly known as Ruchie
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~ Beth
Constipation, pain prodominent,cramps, spasms and bloat!
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My degree is B.Sc. in Mathematics. What am I doing with it? Currently trying to pay it off... 
A lot of a$$es in my family took great pride in asking me how the 'job hunting' was going, knowing full well that I was having a tough time with it. Finally, things are starting to come around. If I wasn't such a nice person, I'd tell them, "Vengeance is mine!" 
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Re: Actuary...
#160112 - 03/13/05 09:36 AM
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jrs
Reged: 03/31/03
Posts: 317
Loc: Aberystwyth, Wales
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Hey Ruchie -- I got into it basically by accident -- at the time I wasn't able to deal with the IBS as well, and it was ruining my academic career. I decided to skip out of school early and basically applied for any job that I thought I could get -- send out over 800 apps over North America. It just turned out that Allstate gave me an intereview and I got the job. So I guess I might not be like other actuaries because it was never like I 'always wanted to be an actuary.'
- Vincent
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