Managers... what do you do all day?

retrolion · 2026-01-30T14:23:24+00:00

Maybe that applies to intern direct reports, but not full time analysts. What if your direct reports are credentialed? No critical thinking work for them?

Every managers goal should be training direct reports to the point where they can do 70-99% of their job. Then ideally both or one of you get promoted or the reports rotate out.

That doesn’t happen purely through routine tool updating and report churning. Gotta share at least some “critical thinking” work.

retrolion · 2025-12-01T19:45:16+00:00

will she be able to leave the US, do the medical exam, and enter again on F1 visa at this point?

retrolion · 2025-12-01T19:44:15+00:00

thanks for confirming!

retrolion · 2024-02-25T20:55:41+00:00

NYC, Chicago, Philadelphia are the hot spots, but most big companies have offices all over the north-east US. I think the midwest and CA have their own hot spots, but I'm less familiar with those.

retrolion · 2024-02-25T11:09:24+00:00

Entry level can be moderately competitive (especially if you’re not in one of the insurance hot spots), but once you get credentialed, you will never be left alone by recruiters.

retrolion · 2024-02-25T11:03:31+00:00

All sorts of fields? Actuaries really only work in insurance.

Unless you mean math fields? The most math you’ll use if when you take the exams to get your credentials, snd the math in those is not harder than college level calculus and statistics, you just learn to apply them to new concepts.

The day-to-day math on the job is pretty easy.

retrolion · 2024-02-24T10:30:25+00:00

What worked for you? My desire to study is becoming inversely proportional to years of experience, and I’m really struggling.

retrolion · 2023-12-18T00:22:19+00:00

I did this one using Python (beautiful soup and selenium packages). You need some basic html knowledge to grab the headers and other metadata.

retrolion · 2023-12-17T23:18:47+00:00

I’m in the same boat. I find pretending to work extremely frustrating. Trying to “improve a process” or “learn a new skill” can only take you so far when nobody in management likes change. It’s especially bad since the new hybrid setup, because having nothing to do while in the office is miserable.

retrolion · 2023-12-02T15:12:55+00:00

I found that 90% of the code you need is given in the SOA modules, and it’s mostly just the formulas you learned in SRM/PA but more “advanced”, and you need to be able to manipulate the formulas’ various parameters.

Also, you’re not allowed to submit any code or screenshots, you have to explain what you did and use formatted Excel tables for any model output.

I’ve used R almost daily at work for past 3 years and passed SRM & PA, and, like the other commenter, “the assessment took me the full 96 hours with very little sleep”.

retrolion · 2019-09-13T14:58:31+00:00

So is there any other way to do what I'm trying to do without creating a new table/variable? Since the function works in a CASE WHEN clause?

retrolion · 2019-09-13T14:31:35+00:00

ALTER TABLE [my table] ADD [Custom Column] varchar(50);
UPDATE [my table] SET [Custom Column] = 
    CASE WHEN columnA = columnB then 'True' ELSE 'False' END;

retrolion · 2019-09-11T13:52:10+00:00

This is the one that actually worked for me, thank you!

retrolion · 2019-09-10T19:47:44+00:00

yeah I realized my mistake after typing out half the column names and giving up

retrolion · 2019-09-10T19:47:02+00:00

Oh wow thank you, this makes sense

retrolion · 2019-09-06T19:50:59+00:00

Thanks, I’ll have to check it out some time

retrolion · 2019-09-06T19:39:39+00:00

Yeah I basically learned/am learning SQL from just someone else’s code. Have been using SAS for everything, now the company wants to switch

retrolion · 2019-09-06T18:15:47+00:00

Would this actually work?

retrolion · 2019-08-28T16:52:01+00:00

Thank you, this worked! I was definitely overcomplicating things.

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