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The industry is growing and actuaries are more in demand than ever before. There is more risk today than there was yesterday (correlates with the idea of entropy – lots of people intersecting lots of people makes friction → accidents). So if you are a bright geek and you stick with the program and pass those exams, your odds are good.

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