It Begins

Hello family and friends!

I have always wanted to start a blog, and because of the popularity of last summer's "Life as an Intern" I have decided that now is the time. Here you go, Grandma; I know you've waited a long time for this!

So for those of you that are completely OUT of the loop, I have moved. To the east coast. Yes, it was a big leap, but I was offered an awesome job at Munich Re America in Princeton, NJ. So, I packed up all of my things, and moved to my personal unchartered territory. Coming out this way, I didn't know anyone within 800 miles, and I didn't know the area at all. I had only been in NJ for the 8 hours of my interview. I hadn't even seen my apartment before I got out here. I'm crazy. 

Since then, I have gotten to know the area a little better, and the beauty of the east coast is that everything is SO close. Philly is a 45 minute drive. Downtown NYC is a 50 minute train ride. The beach is 30 minutes around the corner. Shopping and eating are plentiful, and the Princeton University campus is beautiful. 

Work has provided challenges to say the least. I was hired into the Risk Analyst Rotational Program. For 2.5 years, I will be trained from the bottom up to be a corporate underwriter for reinsurance contracts. Reinsurance is insurance for insurance companies. A typical work day for me consists of 4 hours of reading in the morning. 4 hours of classroom training in the afternoon. I read A LOT. And at the end of the program, I will be a lean, mean, reinsurance underwriting machine. 

I'm almost done with the first stint of classroom training and then I will be moving to the beautiful city of Cincinnati, OH. While there, I will work with a primary insurance company, (like American Family, General Casualty) called Midland Insurance Co. I will be going throughout the company applying what I have learned in the classroom and really get some hands on experience of the primary market before I start on the crazy world of reinsurance (insuring the primary market). 

My coworkers are good, fun people. Tracy just got married at a vineyard yesterday, and I was honored to be invited to the wedding. I enjoyed spending time with coworkers that I'm sure will become good friends. Names to remember for future blogs: Tracy, Brian (Tracy's husband), Duff, Melissa Boskey (a.k.a. Boskey), and Steve. We all got our boogie on at the wedding and had a great time. Tracy looked amazing and I will be posting pics soon! 

I live close to a great cafe, It's a Grind (referred to by moi as the Grind) where I study and do things other than studying, like blogging. I drink coffee, chat with other people on line, text, blog, just about anything other than studying. Just kidding, I'm about to get back to it now. I just wanted to make sure that I got the word out there, and kept all of my favorite peeps informed. (Grandma, that means you.) 

I miss all of you!