What would you do?

[UOIEA]

If you:

1) have 1 or 2 exams + a couple of modules left to attain fellowship

2) have to quit your actuarial career for a good few years (family reasons)

3) have no company support to fund the expensive exams/modules + study materials etcetera because of 2)

Would you continue with the exam (thus exhausting your savings at a faster rate) or would you stop the exam and enjoy life. Assume you don't know if you will ever do actuarial work again in the future.

[wat?]

Originally Posted by UOIEA

If you:

1) have 1 or 2 exams + a couple of modules left to attain fellowship

2) have to quit your actuarial career for a good few years (family reasons)

3) have no company support to fund the expensive exams/modules + study materials etcetera because of 2)

Would you continue with the exam (thus exhausting your savings at a faster rate) or would you stop the exam and enjoy life. Assume you don't know if you will ever do actuarial work again in the future.

I'd take a break for now. If you can't work in the field because of the family reasons, commit yourself to your family full-time and come back to us if it allows you to in the future. If not, then you'll at least be an ASA (which it sounds like you are).

[silverfox]

Sounds like a burnout.

[Amy7]

Are you an ASA yet?

[HangerAngler]

stop

[The Drunken Actuary]

Originally Posted by UOIEA

If you:

1) have 1 or 2 exams + a couple of modules left to attain fellowship

2) have to quit your actuarial career for a good few years (family reasons)

3) have no company support to fund the expensive exams/modules + study materials etcetera because of 2)

Would you continue with the exam (thus exhausting your savings at a faster rate) or would you stop the exam and enjoy life. Assume you don't know if you will ever do actuarial work again in the future.

Given all that, why would you even consider taking more exams?

[ReddEye]

Agreed, whoever votes "continue with exams" must be a masochist.

Shite, for the price of fellowship modules you could take the family on a very memorable vacation.

[DW Simpson]

Originally Posted by The Drunken Actuary

Given all that, why would you even consider taking more exams?

Feelings, motivations and situations change.

My observation is that most people who "take a break" at some advanced stage, they're done for good. So that observation might push you in one direction or another: if you ease up now, you might never get back on that horse, and you might want a horsey later.

[tommie frazier]

if you can afford it, take exams or modules. if not, take the break.

[The Drunken Actuary]

Originally Posted by D.W. Simpson Webmaster

Feelings, motivations and situations change.

So take them again when that happens.