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This could be outdated information that I have, but don't actuaries constantly need to study for their exams/certs? Does that fall outside of the 40 hour/week r

• decafninja 5y ago
  You could argue that a lot of SWEs also have to constantly study leetcode on their own, outside of working hours. Especially if you are targeting many of the high paying companies that would pay substantially more than an actuary. Even if you are fortunate not to have to do leetcode (i.e. frontend engineer interviews seem to diverge from leetcode problems nowadays), you still have to extracurricularly grind on coding in ways that you would typically not encounter during your normal work.
• tfehring 5y ago
  The exam process probably takes something like 2000-3000 hours total, with roughly half done on company time. Exam season is really stressful and can go significantly above 40 hours/week between work and study time, but it doesn't add up to a ton of time when you amortize it over a whole career. There's also a career-long continuing education requirement that typically boils down to 15 hours/year of seminars or webcasts, all done on company time.