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: In this “nontraditional” general session from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto, the panelists, a “judge,” a “defendant,” and a “prosecutor” present a humorous “trial” to explore what the boundaries of “traditional” actuarial work are. A theme of the session is that some of what we call “nontraditional” is an expansion of traditional actuarial work, and that we owe it to our public to broaden our horizons. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4A.