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

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

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.

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.

The sweatshirt is sooo pretty!!😍😍😍

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ❤️

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.

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

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! 🙂

Paige, you’re a legend

Love youuu!!!

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!

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

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

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

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 :)

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

So great to see you paigey

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

This video reminds me so much of myself at my job

I love your videos!😍❤️

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

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!

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

YAY PAIGEY PAIGEY IM SO HAPPY

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

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)

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

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

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!

Just took a break , perfect timing.

We Love our hardworking queen 💕👑✨

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

Finally you upload new post 😊

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

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

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.

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!

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

They grow up so fast :)

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

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

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thank uuu

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?

What computer desktop and specifications using for actuary paper..

Yeayy,

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

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❤️🇮🇳

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

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!:)

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Paige ❤❤❤

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

My dog does the same with me while studying lol

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

How do study days work at your company?

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.

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.

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.

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

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 :)

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. ;)

Can u pls make ur house tour video

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

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 👍)

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

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

East or West Paige Y is the Best Student.

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.

Buster should have a theme song

paige do you like reading?

pen and paper is always your friend***

Go to keybr.com to learn touch typing.

I also loathe skype - it's trash lol

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

What's is your salary?

sound too low :(

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

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 :)

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

Wow I am the first one to coment ya

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!

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

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

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.