Why I no longer want to be an actuary?

In the last few posts that I have written, the subject of actuarial science was nowhere to be seen. The reason for this is that I realized that I really really don't want to be an actuary. A few things brought me to this realization.

First off, that god forsaken book that I bought for this blog. I can't believe I spent 20 bucks on that thing. Talk about snooze city. That thing has got to be just about impossible to read. The book doesn't try the slightest bit to spice the material up. It's almost as bad as reading an AP Biology textbook. So after reading through the first 20 pages, it just kinda hit me, the reason this book is so boring is that it's just a boring job that deals with very boring subject matter. I'd actually like to congratulate the writer for not glamorizing this career or trying to make it more exciting than it is. Had this book not been so boring I would maybe still be considering it as a possible career.

Secondly, It just doesn't interest me enough. Pretty simple really. I think math is all right and I'm decent at it but I sure as hell don't want to do it for the rest of my life.

Lastly, I've just seen too many movies that portray actuaries' to have really garbage jobs.

Example 1:Fight Club. They didn't flat up say Ed Norton's character was an actuary but whatever he was it's very similar. What happens in this move in a nutshell is Ed Norton hates his life so much mainly because of his job that he creates a second personality in order to escape his own crappy life.

Example 2: About Schmidt. Jack Nicholson was definitely an actuary in this one. The move brings us to the conclusion that Jack Nicholson's character has wasted life and really has nothing to show for it.]

Yeah I know these are just movies and I shouldn't take them as fact but still it's kind of hard to ignore. I mean have you ever seen a movie that portrays an actuary in a positive light?

So yeah, that's why I don't want to be an actuary anymore and why I stopped writing about. This will be the last post about actuaries.