The rain didn’t start until well after I finished my 
It’s supposed to rain all day tomorrow.
If anyone’s going to fail an SOA webinar, it’s going to be me:
I’m always glad to travel to new places, but Portland will not be a place I will ever desire to return to.
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Wha’happen???
Nothing! It’s just not my scene. It’s especially challenging with kids.
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If a black hole has rotation that drags an inertial frame around it, does that imply a non-infintesimal radius?
So the potential buyers for my client’s company are here.
On top of everything going on in my personal life it’s been an incredibly nerve-wracking week.
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Oh, OK, apparently Widow has already accepted this offer, but two other potential buyers have made offers that she has not yet rejected. But this buyer’s offer was contingent on today’s … I don’t know what to call it. Walk through? Proctological exam? Meet & Greet? Not sure of the appropriate terminology.
Assuming they go through with the sale supposedly we are all getting compensation packages next week. Not sure if that includes me or not, since I am a contractor. They made it sound like it does. Whether it will be worth my while or I’ll be scrambling remains to be seen.
I’m not sure my nerves can handle this.
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I’d really like to be able to see out of the front of an airplane as it taxis and flies.
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It’s a nice feeling when you’re just about to finish eating the produce in your fridge right before going on vacation.
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turned on the AC for the first time this year, last night
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Hope it’s not paywalled for you. Here are the first three paragraphs
We leave for vacation on Saturday so we are similarly trying to clean out the fridge this week. Let the leftovers commence.
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I am heavily involved in actuarial recruiting at my company. It’s always been my passion, but lately, after recognizing that I will never support my company’s vision for talent, or its arbitrary policies, I am burnt out.
I’ve committed to do it for one more year. I hope I can make it.
I really like my team, and my work. I think I need to let that be enough for the time being.
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Same here. We don’t leave for a week though so might have to buy a couple of things to tide us over. No Costco trips though.
Hopefully you’ll be able to recruit the talent that can improve things over the long term.
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I miss the standing 6 feet apart and pretending not to recognize people in masks while shopping part of the pandemic.
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.> It’s always been my passion
I suspect that a decent recruiter can make more money than an typical actuary. Maybe you should branch out. And it doesn’t have to be a crappy job. There are decent recruiters out there.
I’ve tinkered with the idea, but I don’t think it’s in my future.
Nah, I am passionate about getting people into the profession, not advancing careers of those already in it. Plus, I don’t do well with cold calls and sales! I personally hate the official actuarial recruiters, except for maybe that guy from Community.
I’m as nerdy as anyone here, with no sales inclination, and I have sales volumes that make most people in the insurance industry blush, As could anyone here.
It’s a matter of switching from calling this ‘sales’ and turning it into consulting. that’s why some salespeople claim that they ‘don’t sell, they help people’.
Like, the first thing is, you don’t do cold calls. That’s unprofessional.
There’s a thing called the sales funnel that’s a good basis for this. Top of the funnel, you advertise where your target market consumes information.
target market sees your ad, and say visits your website, so further down the funnel.
On your website, they express interest in your services - generally by filling out a ‘hey, interested in your services, please call me’.
You call those people and qualify them. You looking to move now? Have a position open? If yes, lemme show you what I do. If no, when will you be looking and I’ll call you back then.
All of that process can be documented, repeated, and tested → and those are skills that acturaries excel at. It’s got nothing to do with personality or being an extrovert. It has to do with doing things as part of a process.
that’s sort of modern sales methodology. Cold calling and traditional sales is the opposite of that. Instead of convincing someone to buy your crap, you’re just speaking to people that want you to call them and discuss what you do - and that’s actually a fun job to do all day.
Not saying you should do this, but I am telling you that you COULD do this and be quite successful.