I was surprised to see in one of my regular searches this article from the Honolulu Star-Bulletin:
Mary Kate Smith loves mathematics, and while going to graduate school figured out a way to turn it into a rewarding career: She became an actuary for an insurance company. The job lets her revel in regression analysis, forecasting, model building, probability distribution and similar such things that most people barely understand. Her employer is First Insurance Company of Hawaii Ltd. in Honolulu, which she joined last year after working for an insurance brokerage in Chicago.
….and from there it goes into a routine interview with Ms. Smith about her life as a Workers Comp actuary in Honolulu. The information in the article is not news to folks already familiar with the profession, but for folks wondering what the heck is it that an actuary does…it’s a pretty good read.