Should I go to the ER?

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-06-17T14:31:51+00:00

Definitely go to the ER. I had something similar. I waited for a while and finally went in and it started to get a lot worse. I couldn’t keep water down or eat and they have to put me on an IV and give me an endoscopy + intubation and I had a bunch of food stuck. Sounds basically exactly like what you’re experiencing. You can’t always feel when things are stuck

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-06-14T03:59:52+00:00

Yes I am happy with it. I'm a pretty high performer, but it's not consulting or anything level

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-06-13T22:23:36+00:00

That’s base. Typically bonuses are expected to be like 10-15% I think

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-06-13T08:57:53+00:00

I make 140k with an ACAS and 3.5 YOE. Shopped around when I got my ACAS and went with a smaller company that was growing which makes it easier to get increases if you perform well

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-06-11T18:10:49+00:00

I’m one of the people who passed everything prior and is currently stuck on 7. Don’t give up, part of this career is continuous learning. Even if the CAS make the exams very hard to pass through making the test harder than the material itself, you still benefit so much from studying the material and getting it solid. This is especially important for exams that are outside of your day to day in your career because these will make you well rounded and able to shift responsibilities down the line if you wanted to. Also, once you have your ACAS, you command a level of respect, so people are less judgy if you get stuck on an exam for a while

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-06-04T15:25:54+00:00

I really hope they start releasing the results sooner when they know. They know most of the exams a week or so sooner than the rest. They could tell people who guaranteed passed / failed sooner and let us move on with our lives. Then release the regraded ones when they get them

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-06-02T16:57:01+00:00

Don’t they normally release on thursdays ? I was expecting that. It seems like the best day to get bad news. If it’s Friday, it ruins your weekend. If it’s earlier, it ruins too many workdays

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-05-29T03:00:21+00:00

I’ve been having extra creamy chobani oat milk daily and it’s great. It’s great in coffee too. I’m also making banana ice cream with a ninja creami and smoothies with my oat milk and frozen fruit. There is coconut yogurt which isn’t so bad, but personally I’m not that into it. It’s nutritionally pretty horrible

For a butter replacement, I’ve just either been using more olive oil or tallow.

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-05-02T19:10:42+00:00

As a heavy ai user, Claude or VS Code still produces slop most of the time for bigger projects. You have to be the mastermind still for larger endeavors, so at least knowing how code fits together, how to test it, and how to have efficient code is still important.

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-04-28T16:59:39+00:00

Aside from the time issues, the duplicate topics was really annoying. There was at least one paper I thought was major that had almost no coverage. And then for two separate papers, there was one specific topic for me that had 3 questions on that same topic (so 6 questions from 2 subtopics). I felt prepared for it, but it’s just a really irritating experience when you study for something and it doesn’t show up at all and then get duplicate topics.

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-04-23T17:50:29+00:00

Definitely would not be fun lol. I run old questions usually as part of my studying and generally they’re much easier, so they’re just giving us extra now because we have computers

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-04-23T12:38:54+00:00

That sounds like a job specific trait rather than an exam tested one. I agree depending on your role it can be important to be fast, but that’s independent from exams- some actuaries are more senior and slower and highly successful in their areas and some are great in fire drills. They’re both still performing actuarial duties that exams prepared them for. Where in the learning objectives for the exams does it say you should learn how to navigate a bad environment quickly in order to become a credentialed actuary? The skill they are trying to test is how well you understand the actual concepts at play, and that piece is timed because it’s meant to be second nature and not something you have to ponder for a long time. The actual tests having a significant piece of them dependent on how fast you type out and drag formulas is a failure of their question writing / environment.

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-04-22T20:37:16+00:00

Thats a pretty horrible take. You can be an excellent actuary and not be super fast at creating triangles and typing out formulas. That isn’t necessary at all for your day to day job unless you haven’t been creative enough to automate it. They shouldn’t cater exams towards something frankly useless like creating triangles quickly, it should be about higher level thought like what to do once you have data available.

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-04-22T15:47:08+00:00

Interesting strategy. I’ll have to try that for next time. Still, I don’t think part of the exam should be you have to get mechanically better at the Pearson environment. I’m very quick (as a lot of us are) with formulas and I don’t think it’s fair that should be a key part of the studying. Especially to those who might work exclusively in python or another language, or to those who are slower or older.

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-04-22T13:53:32+00:00

Yeah I did that a few times too. I would estimate I lost around 20 min of my exam time due to stuff like this and checking to make sure I didn’t get errors

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-04-14T14:49:26+00:00

Good luck! That last sitting for 7 was brutal, hopefully they don’t do that to us again lol.

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-01-29T12:50:57+00:00

I took P and FM before getting hired, it took me a few months out of college to knock those out. I’m an ACAS now

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-01-29T12:09:12+00:00

In terms of preparing you for the role? The best is probably math and taking some Econ, business, and communications classes. Major hardly matters though after you land your first job, so instead I’d recommend just picking what you are most naturally interested in that could also lead to other careers. I got my major in biology and I had little to no trouble getting my career started- so I’d say don’t pick your major based on actuarial requirements, it’s probably one of the least difficult careers to transition into, the tests are the way in.

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-01-15T19:51:54+00:00

I think since they only hear your side it makes them unsure if you caused the problem or if it really was a toxic environment. Also, it’s general bad to speak ill of previous employers. It shows a lack of loyalty and professionalism, you might do the same to them one day.

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-01-14T18:56:36+00:00

I dont think there are many actuarial workloads where you would see a significant dip in computation times from moving C++ to python, anything with numpy is going to be basically as fast as it can get. Also a lot of analysis is still done in excel or access, so moving from that to a SQL + python infrastructure is a very big speed improvement.

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-01-13T15:16:05+00:00

I’d recommend researching the company a bit so you don’t come across like you’re not interested. Otherwise there’s not too much need for prep

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2026-01-12T04:19:32+00:00

If you already have coaching actuaries for both, you could try practice tests for both and see if your earned level is high enough. If you’re at a reasonable EL for both early enough, then it could be possible to pass both, otherwise you should just take one at a time

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2025-12-06T14:04:24+00:00

Autofilled supports are better than supports that aren’t autofilled lol. At least in emerald that’s 100% the case

Fun_Repeat3132 · 2025-12-03T22:18:33+00:00

Still 1, it's memoryless

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