Reply #27: Actuarial reseacher PRE computer..or during the early computer days

[angstlessk]

We used to put together our actuarial tables BY HAND...and we did 5 year long range forecasts with the largest accounting forms pasted together...went from 11" x 17" to about 15" by 25" and we had to do our own calculations on CALCULATORS..no excel spreadsheets...it was fun..I miss it.

I remember my first experience with an excel spreadsheet and wondered how you could know where you were...cause most of the worksheet was hidden from sight...not our manual spreadsheets..they were real...and you could touch them and see the entire spreadsheet page.

But since I was forced to become a bookkeeper(unhappily) I now love my new job..from home!...advertising..I have gone from a job considered an expense center (bookkeeper) to a job considered an income producer...which an actuarial person was in the insurance company...