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Study Hard for a Good Salary
When considering their career options many people think of the glamorous and well known jobs as being in the high paid sector. They can imagine themselves being actors or footballers with top of the range cars and Spanish villas in Spain. These careers though are notoriously difficult to get into, and pinning your hopes on becoming a world class footballer is optimistic to say the least.
There are careers though that pass largely under the radar when it comes to choosing a job and being an actuary is one of them. Many teenagers have never even heard of this career option and others, while they may have a scant knowledge, don't really understand what they do or perceive it as boring.
Yet actuaries actually enjoy a very rewarding career, and with an excellent salary to boot! As there are relatively few practising actuaries they can command top salaries. Even a newly qualified actuary can earn over £30,000 per year with this rising to over £100,000 a year for someone who is experienced.
To become qualified though is hard work, and it takes years of dedication and studying before you can start to reap the rewards.
But for those with a good mathematical brain and huge amounts of perseverance, the lure of such a high salary is worth all of the hard work over the years.