He passed!!!!!!!!!!!
That's the email I got from Tara last night.
Joel is an actuary at a major insurance company. There are seven tests that actuaries take and when they pass these (hard) tests they can command more money and their value to the company increases. Joel's company requires that he pass all seven tests. He gets three chances to pass. He passed the first five tests the first time he took them.
The tests are given annually with a different one given in the spring session and fall session. He just got the results for his spring test that he had to take a second time and he passed! Whew. A big load off his mind (and a nice pay increase, too).
The fall test (October) he's failed twice now. The last time by just one point. (There are ten questions with multiple parts and he must get 6 of them right.) So he is now studying hard for his third and last try at passing this test. The good thing is that for the first time there is no new material added so he just has to review what he studied last time and he should pass this one, too.
He has to or he's got to find a new job.
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I live on some rural acreage near a small town in central Illinois. I've been married for over 30 years and am still very much in love with my husband (not that he doesn't drive me crazy sometimes). I have one daughter who is married to a wonderful guy and they live in Indiana. They had their first child, Ellie Ferne, on November 3, 2011!
I come from a large family of four girls and two boys and we are scattered all over the midwest, but we still try to get together a few times a year. I lost my mother to breast cancer August 9, 1999 and my dad passed away five years later on May 24th, 2004. I lost my youngest brother on his 40th birthday in 2003 -- a loss that I still cannot completely accept.
I am an avid St. Louis Cardinals baseball fan and we get down to St. Louis at least once a year to see a live game. I raise and train my border collies for competition in obedience and herding while also dabbling in the conformation ring.
I am a self-employed dog groomer since 1993 and my husband is in the auto manufacturing industy. I am looking forward to retirement a few years down the road so that my husband and I can travel this gorgeous country of ours.
I come from a large family of four girls and two boys and we are scattered all over the midwest, but we still try to get together a few times a year. I lost my mother to breast cancer August 9, 1999 and my dad passed away five years later on May 24th, 2004. I lost my youngest brother on his 40th birthday in 2003 -- a loss that I still cannot completely accept.
I am an avid St. Louis Cardinals baseball fan and we get down to St. Louis at least once a year to see a live game. I raise and train my border collies for competition in obedience and herding while also dabbling in the conformation ring.
I am a self-employed dog groomer since 1993 and my husband is in the auto manufacturing industy. I am looking forward to retirement a few years down the road so that my husband and I can travel this gorgeous country of ours.
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