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Originally Posted by John Adams
Although some aspects are still fun I am bored and can't see finishing my career out in this field. I have a different occupation
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Your decision must be tempered by conditions (kids about to go to college, your financial assets) and whether your decision is based in something that actually has a purpose.
Most everyone I knew who went into Actuarial Science ended up quitting. Although it requires better education, the money is inferior. Worse, they did not control their environment due to management that had contempt for technical realities.
I know many who literally changed their careers in mid-stream. For example, one engineer became frustrated. He watched what lawyers were doing. Realized that lawyers control their destiny; have more fun. So he got a law degree. Two reasons. First it was guaranteed employment. Second, paid better. And was fun because he was now controlled events; could invent things despite reality.
Another realized this in his first year as an engineer. I did not grasp back then how correct he was. He immediately went to Harvard Business, got an MBA, and increased his income by maybe 5 times. But more important, as a salesman of nuclear power plants (yeah, maybe one sale every decade), he controlled his environment.
Another immediately quit as a mechanical engineer to double his income as a salesmen. Well, they made all kinds of promised that were never kept. But selling stuff was so much easier than designing to specs he had no say over. And he could make decisions.
In your case, an important point is, does an actuarial actually control his environment? That requirement is more important than the work - or even the income. Assuming your can take a pay cut.