> [edit: OK I probably couldn't do this, but I could probably pass any/all exams related to the quant side] After "staying up late for weeks" at some indetermi

> [edit: OK I probably couldn't do this, but I could probably pass any/all exams related to the quant side] After "staying up late for weeks" at some indeterminate point in the past? I'd be amazed. The pass rate for the quantitative finance exams is ~35%, and that's among people who stay up late for months, not weeks, specifically to study for those exams, after having spent years of their careers working on quantitative financial models at insurance companies and pension consultancies. I'm calling this out not to nitpick about the difficulty of actuarial exams, but to make a broader point: You are a generalist. This is what being a good generalist looks like. Developing knowledge that's on parity with specialist practitioners in a field is an upper bound, and it's not really practical to attain for highly specialized fields. But the amount of domain-specific knowledge that's needed varies widely from project to project, and needing to read up on the subject after work for a few weeks is well within that range.