Motivating Myself with the Corals

Reflections at Keppel Bay Condominium | Flickr - Photo Sharing!I have decided to use corals keppel bay as a way to motivate myself to work hard and develop a career that will allow me to buy things as nice as a home there. I knew that there was going to be a great deal of motivation stemming from something like this, so I decided to print out a picture, write a few notes and leave them around my office and use it to push me when I was getting burned out.

I know that I cannot afford to buy a place like that right now, but I will one day be able to afford that and so much more if I can keep on the career path that I am taking now.

I worked hard to get through college at the top of my class, continued to search for the right job and did not settle for anything less than exactly what I was looking for and then accepted it. I have been working with the company for a few years and have already started climbing the ladder to the top.

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Science and Technology Degrees Offer Multi-Faceted Career Opportunities

Usually, when one thinks of a career in mathematics, they think of ivory tower recluses contemplating the nature of the universe through numbers. The truth is quite the opposite. One of the largest of the STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) career paths is the actuary and by the very nature of their profession they are one of the most grounded of the fields. A love of numbers and a bachelor science degree can start one on this career path.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, actuaries deal with risk. They decide how likely things such as death, sickness, injury, disability, and loss of property are to occur, as well as the costs of these things. They also decide how much money it will take in order to get a certain amount of retirement income. They help design insurance policies, pension plans and try to make sure any risk is sound. Actuaries may need to explain their findings to company executives, government officials, the public and may even testify in court as experts

In other words, they are the backbone of the insurance industry. They can also work for consulting firms, where their expertise in risk assessment can be used in a number of other ways. If you look at TV shows such as Numb3rs, a lot of the science the stars use is actuarial.

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