It was fun while it lasted... Time to go home!

[TheHaitian]

I contacted both HR and my DM today and told them I am stepping down from my position.

It was fun, great experience but time to go home. Need to go home and focus on my family and me, take a few classes, study for a few actuary exams to see if that is a what I really want to do, start a family or work on it.

They would prefer I not step down and see if they can work something out and I get transferred lateral move. I will no 1 week from Monday on my final date here and next assignment.

Time for the next chapter!

[MJ2.0]

wait... are you quitting work altogether?

[chiver78]

seriously, though.....I hope everything works out the way you want it to be.

[TheHaitian]

Aug 12, 2015 13:18:24 GMT -5 MJ2.0 said:

wait... are you quitting work altogether?

Hell no lol!

Just going back to being a Assistant store manager vs store manager.

I need a sugar mama (swamp if you are reading) if I want to quit work altogether.

[swamp]

Aug 12, 2015 13:25:26 GMT -5 TheHaitian said:

Aug 12, 2015 13:18:24 GMT -5 MJ2.0 said:

wait... are you quitting work altogether?

Hell no lol!

Just going back to being a Assistant store manager vs store manager.

I need a sugar mama (swamp if you are reading) if I want to quit work altogether.

You rang?

How do you feel about new Chevy pickup trucks?

[yogiii]

You realize being an actuary is super boring, right?

[TheHaitian]

Aug 12, 2015 13:20:29 GMT -5 chiver78 said:

seriously, though.....I hope everything works out the way you want it to be.

It will be interesting... But nothing I cannot handle. I am not sure this is really what I want to do till I am 60...

Too many people having heart attacks; I don't want to work so hard and drop dead of a heart attack before I am 55.

And I want a life outside of work, not just live to work... And that is hard to do when you are working 60-70hrs a week.

[TheHaitian]

Aug 12, 2015 13:26:05 GMT -5 swamp said:

Aug 12, 2015 13:25:26 GMT -5 TheHaitian said:

Hell no lol!

Just going back to being a Assistant store manager vs store manager.

I need a sugar mama (swamp if you are reading) if I want to quit work altogether.

You rang?

How do you feel about new Chevy pickup trucks?

I love them

[Deleted]

Aug 12, 2015 13:30:19 GMT -5 TheHaitian said:

Aug 12, 2015 13:26:05 GMT -5 swamp said:

You rang?

How do you feel about new Chevy pickup trucks?

I love them

Wrong answer. 

[TheHaitian]

Aug 12, 2015 13:27:59 GMT -5 yogiii said:

You realize being an actuary is super boring, right?

I heard... Any other suggestions?

- I want to have weekends off, so that at once I can say TGIF!

- I want to be able to leave work at least after 10 hrs. I get it that every job have crazy hours here and there ... But every week!!!

- I want to be able to have a life outside of work which goes back to weekends off (that is when my wife and future kids will have off).

- celebrate holidays with friends and family instead of having to work

Anyway I figure my transition will take 5 years or so (study and pass a few exams first to make sure I want to do this).... Unless you have a better idea!

[TheHaitian]

Aug 12, 2015 13:33:14 GMT -5 minnesotapaintlady said:

Aug 12, 2015 13:30:19 GMT -5 TheHaitian said:

I love them

Wrong answer. 

You didn't let me finish....

I love them because I believe they are great trucks. If I get one I would drive it to the ground before I got a new car

Or drive whatever swamp would buy me

[yogiii]

I'm the wrong person to ask for ideas.

[TheHaitian]

Aug 12, 2015 13:37:09 GMT -5 yogiii said:

I'm the wrong person to ask for ideas.

Why?

[yogiii]

Aug 12, 2015 13:37:25 GMT -5 TheHaitian said:

Aug 12, 2015 13:37:09 GMT -5 yogiii said:

I'm the wrong person to ask for ideas.

Why?

I wouldn't really say I love what I do, but I'll leave you with this math joke.

[The Captain]

Aug 12, 2015 13:27:59 GMT -5 yogiii said:

You realize being an actuary is super boring, right?

BUT super lucrative.  You pass all the exams and you're making solid six figures+ easily.

Few weekends, little customer facing contact.  If I'd know about it before tax sucked me in I may have gone into it.

[yogiii]

I think starting over today I would do pharmacy or nursing.

[MJ2.0]

Aug 12, 2015 13:35:04 GMT -5 TheHaitian said:

Aug 12, 2015 13:27:59 GMT -5 yogiii said:

You realize being an actuary is super boring, right?

I heard... Any other suggestions?

- I want to have weekends off, so that at once I can say TGIF!

- I want to be able to leave work at least after 10 hrs. I get it that every job have crazy hours here and there ... But every week!!!

- I want to be able to have a life outside of work which goes back to weekends off (that is when my wife and future kids will have off).

- celebrate holidays with friends and family instead of having to work

Anyway I figure my transition will take 5 years or so (study and pass a few exams first to make sure I want to do this).... Unless you have a better idea!

there are a LOT of jobs that fall into that category.

My company is hiring if you want to move back to NJ good work/life balance, great discounts, plus I'm there - HELLO?!

[TheHaitian]

Aug 12, 2015 13:43:44 GMT -5 yogiii said:

I think starting over today I would do pharmacy or nursing.

I want a do over too

[Deleted]

Aug 12, 2015 13:43:44 GMT -5 yogiii said:

I think starting over today I would do pharmacy or nursing.

Pharmacy for me.  I tried nursing as a do-over 10 years ago and it was an epic fail.

[MN-Investor]

You might want to pm @athena53. She's a recently retired actuary. Actuaries, from what I understand, are either life insurance actuaries or casualty insurance actuaries. athena53 was the latter. To me, that always sounded more interesting than life insurance. I'm sure she can give you some good practical advice.

[MJ2.0]

Aug 12, 2015 14:00:35 GMT -5 TheHaitian said:

Aug 12, 2015 13:43:44 GMT -5 yogiii said:

I think starting over today I would do pharmacy or nursing.

I want a do over too

I'm preparing to do a do over, and you're younger than I am.... so just do it already!

[Value Buy]

Do I hear more student loans?

Congratulations to acknowledging you want something else out of work before you are too old to make the change.

[973beachbum]

Wow your company must be way different than my PT one.  At that one it seems like the lower you are the more stress you have not the other way around. 

Worker bees get shit on the most and generally work 5-6 days a week but only work under 40 hours.  It involves a lot of being called on your day off and then getting bitched at because something beyond your control happened.  And the dept mgr passes what they have downhill to them because they got it from above.

Dept mgrs get shit on by the stores co manager because they always want them to do more with less hours and no help and by the way it has to look like it came out of a mag shoot for grocery stores.  They also get some pushed up from below because those people are frustrated and stressed also

Co mgrs seem the most stressed.  It reminds me a little bit of good cop and bad cop.  The store director is the good cop and the co mgr is the bad cop.  So they get shit on because everything is their responsiblility and basically get to be the bad guy of reaming out all the people down hill to make sure things get done even if they really can't.  So the co mgr probably works 70 plus hours a week doing whatever couldn't be done when the regular people were on the clock.

The store director actually seems the least stressed.  He does do what I would call blue collar work but he also gets the good money.  District mgrs seem positively happy in comparison.  So maybe what you need is to instead of getting out, move up?

I will add though that if money is important to you no one gets paid $100K a year and gets to work under 50 hours a week and doesn't get bothered on the weekends.  I guess pharmacists maybe but then you need what amounts to a doctorate and are still back in retail.

Whatever you do good luck!

[Cookies Galore]

Aug 12, 2015 13:35:04 GMT -5 TheHaitian said:

Aug 12, 2015 13:27:59 GMT -5 yogiii said:

You realize being an actuary is super boring, right?

I heard... Any other suggestions?

- I want to have weekends off, so that at once I can say TGIF!

- I want to be able to leave work at least after 10 hrs. I get it that every job have crazy hours here and there ... But every week!!!

- I want to be able to have a life outside of work which goes back to weekends off (that is when my wife and future kids will have off).

- celebrate holidays with friends and family instead of having to work

Anyway I figure my transition will take 5 years or so (study and pass a few exams first to make sure I want to do this).... Unless you have a better idea!

Well I say good luck and congrats on realizing what's important at 30 as opposed to killing yourself for the next 30 years. I say it all the time but I really mean it when I say I wouldn't change my work week for anything. Aside from a super mega jackpot lotto win.

[TheHaitian]

Aug 12, 2015 14:03:27 GMT -5 MN-Investor said:

You might want to pm @athena53. She's a recently retired actuary. Actuaries, from what I understand, are either life insurance actuaries or casualty insurance actuaries. athena53 was the latter. To me, that always sounded more interesting than life insurance. I'm sure she can give you some good practical advice.

I did reach out to her and she has provided with a lot of useful information; and as I progress I am hopeful I will keep on reaching out to her.

[NancysSummerSip]

Aug 12, 2015 13:25:26 GMT -5 TheHaitian said:

Aug 12, 2015 13:18:24 GMT -5 MJ2.0 said:

wait... are you quitting work altogether?

Hell no lol!

Just going back to being a Assistant store manager vs store manager.

I need a sugar mama (swamp if you are reading) if I want to quit work altogether.

Don't freaking scare us like this again. Ever.

I thought your next post was going to be that you were quitting the corporate world, giving the house to MIL, packing up the Mini and heading for a commune with the Mrs. and the dog so you could learn to play a zither and make clay pots.

[wvugurl26]

Aug 12, 2015 14:16:30 GMT -5 973beachbum said:

Wow your company must be way different than my PT one.  At that one it seems like the lower you are the more stress you have not the other way around. 

Worker bees get shit on the most and generally work 5-6 days a week but only work under 40 hours.  It involves a lot of being called on your day off and then getting bitched at because something beyond your control happened.  And the dept mgr passes what they have downhill to them because they got it from above.

Dept mgrs get shit on by the stores co manager because they always want them to do more with less hours and no help and by the way it has to look like it came out of a mag shoot for grocery stores.  They also get some pushed up from below because those people are frustrated and stressed also

Co mgrs seem the most stressed.  It reminds me a little bit of good cop and bad cop.  The store director is the good cop and the co mgr is the bad cop.  So they get shit on because everything is their responsiblility and basically get to be the bad guy of reaming out all the people down hill to make sure things get done even if they really can't.  So the co mgr probably works 70 plus hours a week doing whatever couldn't be done when the regular people were on the clock.

The store director actually seems the least stressed.  He does do what I would call blue collar work but he also gets the good money.  District mgrs seem positively happy in comparison.  So maybe what you need is to instead of getting out, move up?

I will add though that if money is important to you no one gets paid $100K a year and gets to work under 50 hours a week and doesn't get bothered on the weekends.  I guess pharmacists maybe but then you need what amounts to a doctorate and are still back in retail.

Whatever you do good luck!

I'm at $90k now. If I put in more than 40, I get comp time. I do things at times on my day off or stay late but in no way does it come close to what Carl is talking about.

[tskeeter]

Aug 12, 2015 14:03:27 GMT -5 MN-Investor said:

You might want to pm @athena53. She's a recently retired actuary. Actuaries, from what I understand, are either life insurance actuaries or casualty insurance actuaries. athena53 was the latter. To me, that always sounded more interesting than life insurance. I'm sure she can give you some good practical advice.

DW works for the #2 PEO, Professional Employer Organization, in the country.  One of their primary activities is providing employee benefits to small employers.  They use actuarial consultants all the time to help quantify their potential liability under their various medical plans.  The same applies to pension plans.  Got to understand what your future liabilities are likely to be.

Expect that it's lots of statistics, probability, analysis of social changes, and good guesses.  Great thing is that by the time anybody really fgures out that you were wrong, you're dead.

I think the social anthropology and it's impact on projections could be really interesting for someone who was good at it.  Like identifying a market for long term benefits to a population that typically does not have a long life expectancy.  Or finding a niche population that has a significantly lower risk profile than the larger population.  Numbers are like a puzzle.  They've got a lot to tell you if you can figure out the right questions to ask. 

[tskeeter]

Aug 12, 2015 14:29:24 GMT -5 wvugurl26 said:

Aug 12, 2015 14:16:30 GMT -5 973beachbum said:

Wow your company must be way different than my PT one.  At that one it seems like the lower you are the more stress you have not the other way around. 

Worker bees get shit on the most and generally work 5-6 days a week but only work under 40 hours.  It involves a lot of being called on your day off and then getting bitched at because something beyond your control happened.  And the dept mgr passes what they have downhill to them because they got it from above.

Dept mgrs get shit on by the stores co manager because they always want them to do more with less hours and no help and by the way it has to look like it came out of a mag shoot for grocery stores.  They also get some pushed up from below because those people are frustrated and stressed also

Co mgrs seem the most stressed.  It reminds me a little bit of good cop and bad cop.  The store director is the good cop and the co mgr is the bad cop.  So they get shit on because everything is their responsiblility and basically get to be the bad guy of reaming out all the people down hill to make sure things get done even if they really can't.  So the co mgr probably works 70 plus hours a week doing whatever couldn't be done when the regular people were on the clock.

The store director actually seems the least stressed.  He does do what I would call blue collar work but he also gets the good money.  District mgrs seem positively happy in comparison.  So maybe what you need is to instead of getting out, move up?

I will add though that if money is important to you no one gets paid $100K a year and gets to work under 50 hours a week and doesn't get bothered on the weekends.  I guess pharmacists maybe but then you need what amounts to a doctorate and are still back in retail.

Whatever you do good luck!

I'm at $90k now. If I put in more than 40, I get comp time. I do things at times on my day off or stay late but in no way does it come close to what Carl is talking about.

WVU, aren't you in the pubilc sector, not private?

[wvugurl26]

Aug 12, 2015 14:47:24 GMT -5 tskeeter said:

Aug 12, 2015 14:29:24 GMT -5 wvugurl26 said:

I'm at $90k now. If I put in more than 40, I get comp time. I do things at times on my day off or stay late but in no way does it come close to what Carl is talking about.

WVU, aren't you in the pubilc sector, not private?

I am. I would expect private sector to get paid even more so it balances out. I have worked in private sector and the only people I knew attached to their Blackberries were making $200k+ a year.
My aunt is a VP of comp & benefits for a publicly traded company. She has her busy time but outside of that she has weekends off and a good work life balance.