Do you have a fancy job title?

[DGuller]

My title is Senior Business Analyst.  Got bumped to that from Senior Actuarial Analyst after failing one too many exam.

In your company is a senior actuarial analyist an associate of the Society of Actuaries, or do they give that title out before you're an associate?

No, usually not, and in general promotions are not linked with your exam progress, but it helps.  The difference between "Actuarial" and "Business" is whether you're proceeding to the designation at an adequate pace.  My progress has stalled, so I lost the "Actuarial" in my title (but thankfully nothing else other than some pride).

[Jacob]

No, usually not, and in general promotions are not linked with your exam progress, but it helps.  The difference between "Actuarial" and "Business" is whether you're proceeding to the designation at an adequate pace.  My progress has stalled, so I lost the "Actuarial" in my title (but thankfully nothing else other than some pride).

Ah okay.  Cool.  How far along are you, if you don't mind me asking?  And what specialization?  Casualty?  My wife is presently battling her way through her exams, doing pensions, so this is actually interesting to me.

[DGuller]

No, usually not, and in general promotions are not linked with your exam progress, but it helps.  The difference between "Actuarial" and "Business" is whether you're proceeding to the designation at an adequate pace.  My progress has stalled, so I lost the "Actuarial" in my title (but thankfully nothing else other than some pride).

Ah okay.  Cool.  How far along are you, if you don't mind me asking?  And what specialization?  Casualty?  My wife is presently battling her way through her exams, doing pensions, so this is actually interesting to me.

Yes, casualty, so I'm actually taking CAS exams, not SOA exams.  I passed exams 1-6, in fact almost blew by them, and then got really stalled just one short of associate.

[HVC]

Nope. I'm jsut a Plant Accountant.

[edanger]you mean EggPlant Accountant?[/edanger]

L.

booo

[Eddie Teach]

He's Italian so he can make that joke.

[The Larch]

A friend of mine who got a teaching gig at the local university used to joke that, when he got his office, he'd put a title holder with "Great Khan of the Teaching Hordes", or something like that, over his table. 

[Jacob]

Yes, casualty, so I'm actually taking CAS exams, not SOA exams.  I passed exams 1-6, in fact almost blew by them, and then got really stalled just one short of associate.

Yikes.  You figure that's as far as you're going, or are you going to keep at it?

My wife is more just short of where you're at.

[DGuller]

Yikes.  You figure that's as far as you're going, or are you going to keep at it?

My wife is more just short of where you're at.

Yes, I'm definitely going to keep at it, lacking designation is very limiting to your career prospects down the line, although not so much at the point where I am.  Such a bad run certainly destroys your motivation, though, and it can become a vicious circle.

How's your wife progressing?  Smoothly or with setbacks?

[Siege]

My job title is kind of fancy: "Weapons Squad Leader".

It refers to the 4th squad in a line infantry platoon, the Weapons squad, which carries and dismounts the medium machine guns (M240B) assigned to the platoon. The light machine guns (SAW-Squad Automatic Weapons-M249) are assigned two per squad - one per fire team. The heavy machineguns, the M2 .50cal and Mk19 40mm automatic grenade launcher, are vehicle mounted and are never dismounted. There are a total of four heavies, 2 and 2, and they are assigned one per vehicle.

[Razgovory]

That's not fancy.  And we know what a weapons squad is.  Hell your field manual is on the internet.

[Barrister]

Looking through the thread, I think I have the coolest title.

Although Liep could make an argument for it...

[Ed Anger]

"Regional Vice president" or the more proper "Regional Manager"

However, the first is on my business cards. They want to use them interchangeably, I'll pick the most pretentious sounding one.

I wanted to call myself Magister Militum per Ohio.  

[Berkut]

Senior Software Engineer. Even I find it boring.

[Siege]

That's not fancy.  And we know what a weapons squad is.  Hell your field manual is on the internet.

I hate you.

Erase that fucking shit from your signature. I never said that.

[Razgovory]

That's not fancy.  And we know what a weapons squad is.  Hell your field manual is on the internet.

I hate you.

Erase that fucking shit from your signature. I never said that.

But you did say that.  In fact, I put the date on there so it could be easily referenced.

Also take a look at this!  http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/3-21-11/c01.htm  It's even got a little picture of you.  Hope the Mahdi Army guys don't have internet access.