This article originally published on InsNerds.
Today we feature a guest article by Nicholas Lamparelli, Catastrophe Modeler at QBE.

Like many of you, my path into the insurance field was not a contemplated career decision. I didn’t even really know what insurance was when I was in school. For better or worse, I fell into it. And by “fell”, I mean I fell for the ‘hey, everyone needs to buy this stuff, and you will make a pile of money’ line thrown at me by a friend who happened to be a personal lines agent. Hook, line and sinker I swallowed it!

Fast forward to the present: While I don’t invite that particular friend to cookouts anymore, and while I haven’t quite fallen into that pile of money he pitched on me (not yet, anyways), I am still in insurance.  It’s actually a very exciting place to be…