The Box of Chocolates Thread (You never know what you're going to get!)

Well I suppose he could have been an auditor or an actuary. Those would be worse.

I mean, it's a bit on he dull side, right?

Agree with auditor, but some of the smartest people I've met are actuaries. Probably helps that I work in insurance, they tend to congregate there.

I guess? Seems like honest work, though afaict.

Honesty has never been a requirement for any of my work.

But when it comes to dullness actuaries win imo, often cited as the occupation for people who find accountancy too exciting.

In fact, it's quite the hindrance.

I think I would find another line of work.

I’m sorry a whole bunch of people felt the need to answer for you.

Accounting, especially with modern automated accounting systems, is mind-numbingly boring. Junior auditors have it almost as bad.

Wasn't Dave S and actuary?

I think so. What’s an actuary actually , is that like a a self help job where you estimate how long it will take someone to self actualize themselves?

Chandler Bing was an actuary

No doubt that actuaries are very good at actualizing! 😀

No, that would be Mason. He doesn't like to mention it too often, but he once worked for the census bureau.

Dave just goes around pretending he can count, which for me personally, is a never-ending source of lols. It's quite the gift that keeps on giving.

"Was" is doing a lot of lifting there.

Too soon?

Accountants may be boring but controllers are my people

I've still never been there but apparently it's been going downhill. But there is a large expat American community in some places there

Someone who actually threatened to move and did . Impressive

Unlike all those folks that said Im moving to Canada if Trump wins

I don't know the details of what is causing the rise in violence there, but because they use the US dollar and because of inflation, it is of course possible that Biden ruined Ecuador.

Oh the irony.

I've always wanted to go there but because they use the dollar, it's more expensive than neighboring counties.

Meanwhile the Colombian peso is about 20% higher vs the dollar than when I was last there. They elected a leftist president which sent the peso down, then his son got caught up in some corruption scandal and the markets decided that he wasn't going to be able to push through the reforms that he wanted, sending the peso back higher.

Some of those people found out that you don't let us in.

yeah. i think there was a lot of "american exceptionalism" that was crushed by finding out that not every country is dying for average Americans to just choose them and move in.

When I first saw the accountant post I thought it was referencing this old tiktok meme.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8qSFSGm/