HECTIC DAY WFH | trainee actuary vlog - my first study day got cancelled...

[@zednik8956]

As someone who works in IT i would really recommend putting the larger screen infront of you and then have the laptop to the side, It will be much better for your back, neck and eyes.

[@werhnerwangra]

This is the way.

[@PaigeY]

Appreciate the advice, will do this going forward ☺️

[@falguni1185]

So I am not the only one who speaks to herself while working/studying. Thank God! 😅

[@tired.....247]

No definately not. I was worried I'm the only one and now even my sister thinks there's something wrong with me😂

[@samadams1408]

Studying is very much unique to the individual. What works for one student won't necessarily work for another. The trick is to find what works for you and then do it.

[@Neji961]

you're doing fab, so hardworking! I'm a PR consultant and I've worked from home for the last 2 years (pre-lockdown I used to work on my laptop in Pret, good times), it took some time to get used to! Me and my clients have a mutual understanding that anything goes, we have dogs, kids, partners all coming in and out, makeup is not a thing at all, we have a laugh etc. it's good.

[@hucklebucklin]

Enjoying this series! It's a realistic view on office life!

[@ishkar7884]

I love the working vlogs! Thank you for making them.

[@reneerowling5130]

Love this! Sounds like you need to do a crash course in touch typing though! It was the only useful thing I remember learning at school!

[@ImogenWhite]

Love this video Paige! It’s so interesting to see your work days compared to your study days!!

[@anweshatalukder9162]

The sweatshirt is sooo pretty!!😍😍😍

[@andrewbracking3185]

I’ve just watched a video of Paige looking at a screen and thoroughly enjoyed it

[@mentatphilosopher]

Most Video Conferencing software has a subtitles option which can help taking notes. If you are allowed to record the call you can have software transcribe it later. For you note taking, the software probably has an abbreviation option. There you could add long or hard words or even whole phrases that are commonly used and only need a couple of keystrokes to enter them.

[@hollysaunders2052]

I've got an interview later... I've made so many notes but feeling sick with nerves... watching this took my mind off it and I don't feel as sick. Thank you!

[@saloneebanerjee5515]

Good luck for your interview!

[@90sHONEY]

So how did it go?

[@hollysaunders2052]

Hey guys thank you, you're so sweet! It went really well... I think! I won't find out if I made it through to round 2 until the end of the week. Ekkkkk

[@saloneebanerjee5515]

@@hollysaunders2052 aww thats great, fingers crossed you make it girl!

[@hollysaunders2052]

@@saloneebanerjee5515 you're the sweetest, thank you!!!

[@karlyx1585]

You motivate me so much! Love u Paige and wish you nothing but the best

[@trishapatel6311]

You're vids r the only thing keeping me going at college, and it makes me feel less lonely especially during this time with lockdown and all. thank you so much :)

[@user-xc5vt3ny4f]

Hi Paige, I’m a year older to you and have been watching your videos since you started vlogging you Cambridge journey. I started working a year ago and all my memories and anxieties of starting a full time job came rushing back to me while I watched this video. I know small things like learning how to take minutes of the meeting can be stressful but don’t worry about it you’ll get there. I am exactly like you where I keep take on work in spite of already have my plate full and went through very similar struggles like what you’re now going through , just give it time and hang in there as the months go by, you’ll learn how to deal with clients, how to politely say no to your seniors. Don’t worry , you’ll be fine ❤️

[@omkarmantri7350]

do y'all also feel like proud parents of paige, who look at her work and beam

[@NerlenDept]

8:30 Your singing is very beautiful! I like your vibrato, in particular. Glad to have discovered this.

[@PaigeY]

I practice a lot in the shower 🤪

[@NerlenDept]

@@PaigeY Ha-ha, well, it must be an effective measure, then. Personally, I would trully be happy to see and hear you sing again in your next videos.

[@annapoorna2321]

You arey inspiration Paige you make me wanna study . All the best

[@tasbihaliaqat4062]

My life in a nutshell. I started working last year as an External Auditor in a firm whilst studying full time for ACCA (Accountancy Professional Qualification) and writing my final research and analysis project for the BSc and whenever I would decide to study during working hours this would happen. Good luck with your first busy season, it is going to be so fun especially when you are studying. :P

[@alexanderramzan7507]

Awesome video Paige! It does look like a lot of work, but I hope you are enjoying it! If people are asking you to help them with their work then that must mean you are very good at what you do! 🙂

[@pascale8022]

Can you make a video about work/life balance and what you do when you're not working, and how you manage to feel like you separate your personal from your work time/head space when you're working from home!

[@karlaferranco4653]

we love a hardworking queen ❤️ gonna start working on my project too 😅

[@rondoflicflac]

Love these vlogss! Hope you're not that stressed!!

[@kingsleyyuan4311]

So great to see you paigey

[@elodiee01]

u go! I could never be as committed as you!

[@nicole_holding]

You can tape the meeting if you have an Apple. I tape all my Zoom meetings then you can replay them

[@jenniferjones2863]

I love your videos but I think you need a more ergonomic set up to avoid neck and back problems. Your primary monitor should be directly in front of you and your eyes should be about 2 inches below the top bezel when looking straight across. Good luck with your projects.

[@AshleyLoveland1739]

Great fun to be working or studying with you. Thank you! (side thought: maybe recording the calls then you could cross-reference the transcription, and releasing some of the perfection of missing something *if legal of course)

[@vitaswang2164]

How do you usually stay focused, if I were you, I’d be procrastinating all day. RESPECT

[@noahjohnson5062]

This video reminds me so much of myself at my job

[@user-vy8vy3ih4f]

We Love our hardworking queen 💕👑✨

[@amohammed4140]

You should just ware light blue it is very nice on you and purple 🎉🎉💜💜💜

[@alyqthebest]

Thanks for another great video! V relatable. If you book your leave in advance and set an out of office message, people usually respect that and wouldn’t contact you unless it’s urgently required. Before taking on new tasks, check what the deadline is and voice out if there are other urgent tasks/conflicting schedules. It helps manage yr manager’s expectations and allows you to prioritise better. Hope this helps and All the best!:)

[@mingrav]

While it's all nice and good, don't let work to take away your study days! You need to make it clear, that X is your study day, because people just won't know it and will give you tasks. It's a classic with new people, who are too shy to say that. In the end you'll still need to study and you'll spend your personal time on it, which is not nice

[@baharb.k1646]

Your video was so motivating dear Paige ❤🙂 you are a truly hardworker ❤

[@trenawhite]

Paige, you’re a legend

[@wra1215]

I could relate to this video so much! reminds me when I took cs1.. goodluck with your studies!

[@fairyqueen9281]

11:07 ahah, I feel so guilty when that happens with my dog :P ! And you're right when you say you should stop being hard on yourself. You're still learning, and by the way I can see there're quite a few helpful comments here :) Do what you can at your best, little by little everything will get smoother and smoother :) Go Paige!

[@K.X.A]

Love youuu!!!

[@alexwuntch3368]

I relate to this video so hard lol. I set out to finish 4 things, 5 things are thrown at me plus 3 meetings, two of them are cancelled but another kick-off meeting is set up, thing number one I set out to do is taking too long, so I tackle the 5 that were unscheduled, but thing number three of those gets complicated and I need to reach out to someone to finish it, then thing number 4 is interrupted by the meetings, the end of the day comes and I'm still on thing 5 of the surprises, then I go back to thing one I actually planned to do and finish it but it is too late now for things 2, 3, 4 and 5, so I pick the most urgent one and finish that and then start planning the day for the other 3, but one look at my calendar tells me that the meetings that were cancelled are scheduled in the morning, plus the ones I already had for that day and my e-mail informs me of surprise thing 1 for tomorrow that is due by the end of the day, so I give up and go to bed. No stops because that is how it feels.

[@malavikarnambiar7901]

Poor you 😂😂

[@mariambolkvadze7042]

Hello PaygeY, I love your vlogs, I started watching during quarantine, but I already watched all your cambridge videos: )) and new ones as well. Could you please make weekly vlog? Or weekend vlog? Or something involving not only your workday, like going out, social life, preping dinner etc. Something that involves not only your "cabinet"? : ) This is just my wish: ) other than that I enjoy your vlogs very much

[@Maiten01]

Well there's not much going out atm is there ;)? I think they've got quite a strict lockdown in the UK

[@a.bhardwaj8262]

Hey paige !!! I really like your vlogs , they’re super motivating and fun to watch ❤️❤️but just an idea why don’t you come live ? I mean you can study or work while being live , it will be really helpful. Love from India❤️🇮🇳

[@reemwaleed3384]

Girl i love your vids, Greetings from Egypt❤ 🇪🇬

[@samadams1408]

Just noticed that you said you don't touch type - have to say that I took typing one year in high school (I had the mistaken belief that it was going to be a real benefit in university - it wasn't). It wasn't until long after I'd finished grad school (and made Fellow) that I suddenly discovered that touch typing was a valuable skill. Seems that high school course paid off after all.

[@AC-qz3uj]

Me too, in Germany you have to learn it in high school. Without being able to type you will not get your A-levels... but at least she went to Cambridge... she will be waisting soooo much time granted her whole work is on the computer.

[@fredtheferret457]

They grow up so fast :)

[@areebquadri7645]

Just took a break , perfect timing.

[@gamelove4735]

East or West Paige Y is the Best Student.

[@thedanwhite18]

Im going to be starting a work from home job soon, any tips? Love the videos btw :))

[@christopherriszker1115]

greetings from germany paige. i like your videos very much.

[@silvialogan9226]

Paige, the office work which you are doing can be very demanding, but you will get use to it as you go on. How many modules are you studying right now?

[@pierotanya4157]

Make sure you take all your study days fully and don’t get dragged into work!

[@knuckleberrie]

I love your videos!😍❤️

[@lalitayadav3946]

Can u pls make ur house tour video

[@JoyForStudies]

YAY PAIGEY PAIGEY IM SO HAPPY

[@syarifahulfamaghfirah8548]

All right

[@AysenurToptas]

Taking meeting notes was a nightmare for me and actually I was thinking myself 'as an engineer why do I suppose to take the meeting notes?..I am not a secretary' and one day I had started to cry..I was too young and had big ambitions...not aware of junior-senior task allocation... :) Buster is so lovely by the way :)

[@АндрейМатулевич-э7к]

I love taking notes you learn so much. :) most interesting and influential decisions are normally made by a few people high up the hierarchy anyway.

[@AysenurToptas]

@@АндрейМатулевич-э7к I was too young then :)...you are right! you can learn a lot while taking notes :)

[@PaigeY]

Totally get you, we all have to start somewhere I guess. Have actually really enjoyed taking meeting notes though, has been the most interesting work I’ve done so far because of all the insight into the work of senior actuaries!

[@AysenurToptas]

@@PaigeY You are so right! I believe you will be very successful in your job. Wish you best of luck! :)

[@AysenurToptas]

@TheRenaissanceman65 That's right! :)

[@rayansyed1714]

you are the living proof that degree does not matter to excel at a job you like (pun not intended but cheers if you find it 👍)

[@Jesus_777.2]

Lol it took me while to understand he pun

[@francychavez4392]

I think it's highly unlikely she would have gotten that job without having obtained her university degree. In fact, in one of her vlogs she mentioned that getting that job offer was conditional upon her graduating with a 2.1 (upper second class) degree.

[@Jesus_777.2]

@@francychavez4392 what does second upper class mean?

[@samadams1408]

@@francychavez4392 It's almost impossible to get a job as an actuarial student without a degree of some sort. That degree doesn't have to be in actuarial science (I'm a Fellow and all my degrees are in math) but without a degree you're not going to be considered for an interview. Fact is, I'd been working as an actuary for five years before I met anyone with a degree in actuarial science - most of the actuaries I knew had degrees in STEM subject (lots of math) and I know exactly two actuaries with humanities degrees (one has a Bachelors in comparative religions, the other a Masters in English literature). And yes I know one Fellow (FSA) long retired who never graduated from university.

[@ken-yo2hz]

@@samadams1408 They have humanities degrees for being involved with actuary?

[@rociopenin7823]

Your shirt has the same sun as my home country's flag 🇦🇷 it is called Sol de Mayo (or May's Sun).

[@Thomas_con_h]

AR GEN TI NA!! AR GEN TI NA!! o Uruguay, noc

[@rociopenin7823]

@@Thomas_con_h Uruguay también!!! 🇦🇷🇺🇾

[@piyushdeshmukh1431]

Finally you upload new post 😊

[@ekaterinaalekseeva5172]

Paige, there’s a thin line between giving out your information and stuff that‘s indirectly related to your firm‘s business, image, you name it. Love you to bits! Please be careful.

[@PaigeY]

Agreed - I’m purposefully vague because of this! Specifics of a project/client/company policy will never be shared, but will give insight to the profession as best I can within the constraints 😊

[@ninthusiva7546]

Come on, stop being so hard on the girl.

[@anurupasaha8051]

That reaction at 4:23 omggg paige lysmmmm😂❤💛

[@PaigeY]

I was not expecting the meeting invite at all ahaha

[@anurupasaha8051]

@@PaigeY haha happy children's day paige!💖💖

[@bobblue_west]

WORKING LIFE LOOKS THE PITS! U shoulda stayed in college then married some super-rich dude or become a teacher. You've got the positive personality for it.

[@sidharthasoka5918]

I love your video editing. How do you do it?

[@shreya6704]

Your top/jumper is looking beautiful on you Paige ;))

[@kevinlinkw]

I think you could've made use of VBA (a good friend of every actuary tbh) when you were doing the repetitive task of value-ing 10 different Excel files, especially if you see yourself doing something similar again in the future. ;)

[@PaigeY]

For sure, learning some VBA is on my to-do list!

[@2188srikanth]

What computer desktop and specifications using for actuary paper..

[@stevelawrence8945]

Good morning from outside a very small town in an extremely rural part of the State of Mississippi.....USA.....5000 miles and 6 Time Zones away..... Steve

[@ankitakumari2729]

😍😍

[@JennLynnRohling]

How do study days work at your company?

[@emmanuelyegon8544]

still studying for actuarial and I have to ask how many hours do you take at work

[@Jesus_777.2]

Touch typing isnt hard to learn, there are many free resources online. It will slow down your workflow for a bit but by a month you could do it naturaly

[@PaigeY]

This is my issue, I can currently touch-type very slowly but can never bring myself to actually touch-type in practice because it feels so much slower atm 😅 I just need to have faith it will benefit me in the long run!

[@Jesus_777.2]

@@PaigeY you seem like a very diciplined person and youll achive it, If you want get good in a month its recomended to be fully commited as with only practice your bad habits wont go away as fast

[@maraamadel]

My dog does the same with me while studying lol

[@ammarif618]

Paige ❤❤❤

[@grassgrees6728]

thank uuu

[@charl3378]

I also loathe skype - it's trash lol

[@shreya2732]

paige do you like reading?

[@jamesramsey7159]

Actually, practice will eventually make you perfect. :o)

[@syarifahulfamaghfirah8548]

Yeayy,

[@dent20111]

pen and paper is always your friend***

[@rondoflicflac]

💛💛💛💛

[@yasurikressh8325]

Buster should have a theme song

[@nutshell3759]

do you think it is hard to find an actuary job after finishing university (physics)?

[@PaigeY]

It’s not easy to find ANY graduate job in current times but with a bit of persistence, hard work, and some luck it is definitely possible!

[@samarthrathi3482]

What's is your salary?

[@vathadabrundavani5580]

sound too low :(

[@davidsweeney111]

you should work in the civil service, just do the things you want to do, and do that well, if you absolutely have to do something that you dont want to or it takes too much effort, just do it badly, they wont ask you again :)

[@ken-yo2hz]

They don’t pay as much

[@davidsweeney111]

@@ken-yo2hz I suppose thats why they dont do very much :)

[@proinksys5260]

Question: is it possible to finish 60% of A level syllabus in a month? (pls reply)

[@alyaandar5778]

Yes it is if you study 6-7 hours a day It is very possible.

[@aa0000]

Go to keybr.com to learn touch typing.

[@nirajshah8023]

Are you one of those that likes to spread out revision through the week or do you think youll do a lot on your study day? I currently dont do much revision on my study day and i spread it out during the week! Also i wrote a blog on things that have helped me when working from home, which i think you could relate to!

[@PaigeY]

Haven’t quite figured it out yet but the plan is to be as efficient as poss in my study days - I enjoy having the structure of 9-5 and want to keep project work and study separate (although I say this having shifted my study day next week into a morning and afternoon on separate days 🤦‍♀️)

[@PaigeY]

And would love to read your blog! Let me know where I can find it

[@nirajshah8023]

@@PaigeY Hi Paige, it's on Wordpress, can I send you the link of it somewhere else? Only because I am not 100% comfortable sharing the link here! However, I did share it on Linkedln so I can send you the link on that if you want? Up to you!

[@nirajshah8023]

@@PaigeY I like keeping work on the job and study as separate as possible as well. However, I find that I work well in the evenings, so I sometimes block out an hour or 2 after work! I find it is a fine balance, although I want that separation between work and study, I don't want to rely too much on my study days

[@ninthusiva7546]

@@nirajshah8023 great blog post.

[@farahaslam9224]

If you dont book the study days they will male you work considering that is what you shoukd be doing. Pls book in advance next time! And yes, work is never complete in corporate jobs you’ll be expected to work / take meetings overtime. Luckily, I’m a teacher so none of this applies to me! Hehe

[@PaigeY]

Don’t worry all my study days are booked for the next few months!

[@connormarshall6195]

Don’t think there is any need for the tone of your comment. She even said she hopes she isn’t too busy and she knew it was a last minute decision and could be asked to do work

[@panikick]

Has anyone ever told you that you' re beautiful with two fantastic eyes ?

[@sujunjie1902]

have you been losing weight? ear more, girl, you work so hard

[@annapoorna2321]

Wow I am the first one to coment ya

[@syarifahulfamaghfirah8548]

Hahahaha.. Its so fun

[@AC-qz3uj]

So you got a degree from Cambridge and got into a job that will be ON THE COMPUTER for the rest of your life, yet you cannot type.... some things never stop to amaze me. I went to a German high-school in a troubled neighbourhoood and I would not have gotten my A-levels without being able to type... but yeah right, priorities.

[@31SingerGeorgia]

Quite rude any need for this?