athena53
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I'm a retired property-casualty actuary and did have many professional friendships with colleagues and former colleagues all over the US. I'm on LinkedIn with most of them, FB with a few and I did attend two meetings of my professional society after retirement. One was in Toronto, a city I particularly enjoy; another was in a less-desirable destination but I was getting an award. I also attended a could of regional meetings that were in the town where DS, DDIL and my grandchildren live.
I did run into some people I knew and enjoyed that but had less interest in the educational sessions; many went too deep into the weeds of theoretical math, which is like a foreign language where you have to work to keep up fluency. I haven't. The consulting and rainmaker types were cordial but got away as quickly as they could- I was of little use to them.
A big drawback was when they stopped letting retired members register for free because too many baby boomers were retiring and showing up at meetings to guzzle the free booze and chow down on hors d'oeuvres at the evening receptions.
So for me most of them have faded away and I'm OK with that. I loved what I did but I left it 7 years ago.
I did run into some people I knew and enjoyed that but had less interest in the educational sessions; many went too deep into the weeds of theoretical math, which is like a foreign language where you have to work to keep up fluency. I haven't. The consulting and rainmaker types were cordial but got away as quickly as they could- I was of little use to them.
A big drawback was when they stopped letting retired members register for free because too many baby boomers were retiring and showing up at meetings to guzzle the free booze and chow down on hors d'oeuvres at the evening receptions.
So for me most of them have faded away and I'm OK with that. I loved what I did but I left it 7 years ago.
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