Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. Discusses viable options for second careers utilizing an actuarial background. Society members who have moved into such career paths will offer their perspectives on: their personal experiences and options, the contribution of their actuarial training, how others view the actuary and current and future options available to actuaries.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Spring Meeting reviews evolving job opportunities in the government sector. From Record of Society of Actuary Vol. 21, No. 1.

Description: Presenters in session 147PD of the New York Annual Meeting discuss the new profession of financial engineering and how it relates to what actuaries do. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: Since the world in which actuaries work is both expanding (through 'data science' opportunities) and contracting (since 'data scientists' are doing work formerly done by actuaries), the role of education actuaries is at a tipping point. Members of the Society who are in higher education and representatives from the business community will discuss ways in which the two worlds of business and education have worked together in the past, what can be done by each group to assist the other, and what the future may hold.

Description: In session 104IF of the Washington Annual Meeting panelists discuss actuarial careers in software development. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Vancouver Meeting explores alternative career opportunities and how certain colleagues have moved from a traditional career to a nontraditional career utilizing their skills and background. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3b.

Description: About changes in career at the same company, and changes [voluntary and involuntary] to another company or to another career. Panelists discuss the internal [personal] aspects of these types of changes and how to prepare for them, along with the four major transitions in a typical actuarial career. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 3.

Description: The panel discussed actuarial opportunities in the 1980's and 1990's. Questions discussed included: 1. Will traditional opportunities be reduced? 2. What nontraditional opportunities are available? 3. What changes are needed in our educational process? 4. How do we make nontraditional employers aware of actuarial skills and their value? 5. What will actuarial work be like? From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 8, No. 3.

Description: Panelists explain the field of actuarial counseling, which is essentially risk management on an impartial basis for individuals. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Speculative fiction story regarding time travel and implications.