A friend recently played me a snippet of a podcast called the BS Report with Bill Simmons. Bill had a guest on named Rick Reilly, and Rick was complaining about people disparaging him on their blogs. His grievance was, "I don't really want to read [criticisms by] people who have never met me. Or some guy that's an Actuarial by day, and at night he's trying to do this blog and he's pissed that he never got hired as a sports writer, so he's gonna take it out on me and other people that are hired. I don't really need to hear his gripes."
I wasn't aware that my profession, with one of the most strenuous professional exam processes in the world, was a typical fall-back job for out-of-work sports writers. I also wasn't aware that we're adjectives.
Actuary (n): One who specializes in the quantification of risk.
Actuarial (adj): Of or pertaining to an actuary.
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