genedan

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by genedan 5y ago
Go to a competitor. It can be a farce sometimes, when people from two different companies across the street essentially just replace each other for 20% more, but doing the exact same job. And then two years later they repeat and switch chai
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by genedan 5y ago
> incredible percentage of your policy that goes into marketing/admin/etc The expense ratio is something like 30 to 40 percent of premium on commercial policies in case anyone was wondering. This figure is found on annual repor
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by genedan 5y ago
On the other hand, that reduces the remaining causes of death to gruesome physical accidents. Knowing that given even time, probability will win, it could make death a very scary thing to think about. I suppose there is some comfort knowing
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by genedan 5y ago
In my experience working in an insurance claims department, we overlooked a lot of fraud, intentionally. Usually, only the large, extremely obvious cases with plenty of evidence were pursued. I believe a lot of the soft fraud involving slig
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by genedan 5y ago
People's insatiable wants keep them working. If people really wanted to work half time, they would.
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by genedan 5y ago
I think it's okay. There are plenty of opportunities later in life to fall back on a middle class job if your dream doesn't work out. Lots of people don't enter my field (actuarial) until their late 30s/early 40s. You pa
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by genedan 5y ago
My wife and I have been living in a studio to save for a down payment and meant to buy last year, but didn't. Now we have saved up double what we were expecting since we stayed in the studio for a year longer than planned. I think ther
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by genedan 6y ago
One way to get more out of people is well, to pay more. Another way is to treat them better. Yet another way is to abuse them, but I would think that would only work for people who don't really have any other options in life, and you d
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by genedan 6y ago
No, the lies will just snowball on day one when you find out you can't do the job.
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by genedan 6y ago
As I become more wealthy, I have started to tackle problems that I never really thought about when I wasn't as well off, things that cropped up when I thought I'd finally have peace of mind. In retrospect, the insecurity was alway
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by genedan 6y ago
There is a rumor that Schumman ruined his hand by getting surgery to free up his tendons but there doesn't seem to be any proof of that.
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by genedan 6y ago
I find it odd because if they tried that hard doing something legitimate, they might be just as successful too. Maybe it stems from some kind of deep-seated insecurity about their ability to create or taking responsibility for their decisio
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by genedan 6y ago
>I really wish there was some certifying body that would put me through the whiteboard guantlet once, and then I could just share my score to companies I apply to. In my field (actuarial), we have a ridiculously long credentialing proces