If you do what you love, you’ll have an impact, says Pauline Blight-Johnston, who almost went into medicine but became an actuary. She answers our CEO Q&A.
It came to me fairly early in my career journey while I was still in high school. Getting the marks I got, people expected I’d be a doctor or lawyer, so I began to expect I’d be a doctor orPauline Blight-Johnston says that when people are feeling vulnerable, they don’t always behave in the way models suggest.I had a moment thinking: “Do I really want to go into big, bad business? Because I want to do good in the world.
What was the moment in your career that changed you, or that you learnt a lot from? Or that was pivotal in some way? And it was only about 10 years in that I joined the dots that behind every single one of those numbers was a human being. And that human being was probably interacting with us at a scary and horrible point in their life. And people, when they are feeling vulnerable, don’t always behave in ways the model will tell you.I’m at the gym at six o’clock. I finish at 10 to seven and then grab a coffee on the way home. I do that five mornings a week. I’m an actuary.
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