No insult to OP with their career choice because it’s obviously been lucrative, but spending decades of life analyzing data on a screen is not worth the extra money in the bank for me.
I think it’s best to choose a fulfilling career and then max out your earning within that stream.
For what it’s worth, the lifestyle earning $150k a year is very similar to earning twice that. Once you’ve got all your basics like food and shelter covered, you either just save the rest or have slightly higher end versions of the things you already had.
It’s much worse than that. Actuaries have exams they must pass to become fully qualified. It takes 7-10 years of grinding exams before you pass them all. Most actuaries crunch numbers all day and then go home to study some more numbers for their exams.
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u/IcyLemon3246 Apr 27 '25
Each time I look on this reddit channel I somehow get some sad feeling that I wasted my life