I’m an actuary (not of the qualified variety) and don’t share the observations made in most of the comments here:

- I get to spend most of the time in R working on cash flow modeling;

- We get to use a lot of data which makes for interesting challenges;

- I get a say in how we solve problems IT wise;

- We need to understand the business to do our own modeling correctly;

- Pay isn’t that great.

AMA

P.S. I’m in Europe