| June 2006 - Daisy at the Actuary Convention |
| In Daisy's own words: "In June I got to explore the mysterious world of actuaries. Nobody really knows what actuaries do, and I was determined to find out. So I dropped in on their conference in Florida." |
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| << "My first stop was Registration. Good thing I was wearing my registration tag! I sailed through easily." |
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| "Once inside, I came to a table with actuarial literature. I opened up a colorful booklet that looked interesting, but on the inside there were nothing but boring tables of numbers." >> |
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| << "On the other hand, it looks like actuaries do really exciting things. I found one exhibit that showed an actuary hiking through the mountains. That looks like a lot of fun. It looks like actuaries get to explore and see the world. My type of people!" |
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| "Actuaries also seem to spend a lot of time in meetings. I wandered into a meeting on hurricanes and another on reinsurance pools. I don't like hurricanes, but if reinsurance pools are anything like the pool in the backyard, I hope the actuaries make more of them!" |
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| "The highlight of my trip was the software demonstration by a consulting firm,
Reden & Anders. I went over to take a look -- it makes such cool charts! After I'd been there for a minute or two, a couple of friendly folks came over to wine and dine me, while they explained the finer points of trend management. They really do know how to treat a customer right! I must have consumed nearly my entire body weight in gin and tonic, and I'm afraid I don't quire remember what happened next. But when I awoke, all the actuaries were gone. I hope I'll see them again some day!" |