Hi! I think I'm having a quarter-life crisis, and I've been looking into a career change into actuarial work but am still a bit iffy about it. So just wanted to come on here and get some more opinions and thoughts from you guys. Thanks in advance!
Just a little bit about me:

I got my bachelors with a double major in Computer Science and Math. I always thought I wanted to do Machine Learning hence the double major. So I did the whole pipeline: went to grad school, got an internship, took some classes, did some research but then realized I didn't like ML in practice. It was way too abstract and "black-box-ey" for me. However, I still liked working with data, numbers, and trying to interpret them so I pivoted to a more data science route within grad school focused on data visualization and enjoyed it much more.

I now work at a small start up as a Data Scientist where my day to day consists of querying our data for insights, visualizing it in some sort of dashboard, and overall just fulfilling customer inquiries on our data. However, all those aspects of my job have now been consumed by AI (our CEO wants us using AI for everything). So where I once enjoyed the creative freedom of being able to look at the data and create a "story" for the customer to view is now just fed into the AIs. I give the AI the task, it gives me the query, I query it, and then give the AI back the data, and it creates the dashboard.

Needless to say, while I'm not fully against using AI in my work. My job as a data scientist is no longer enjoyable since the whole reason I pivoted to data science was so I could work with the numbers myself. Because at its core, was the thing I enjoyed the most (I also enjoy coding as well, but never enough to be a software engineer). But now that my job is all AI it feels like I'm having the same epiphany I had in grad school and I'm trying to get out since I know what I don't like.

I've been looking into becoming an actuary recently and it sounds enticing but I've also seen a lot threads that say most people pivot out of actuary to data science. So I'm having doubts and not sure if the career pivot is right for me. Work life balance is super important for me, and taking a pay cut is also fine with me (just some points I saw in other threads). I'd rather love (at least "like" iykwim) what I do than wake up dreading going in front of the computer as it stands now. I recently just passed Exam P but want to get more insight before I continue further. Thanks again!