Recent Music major grad interested in becoming actuary

I just recently graduated college this past May with a degree in music and a pre-health concentration (I took all the bio, chem, organic, physics, biochem classes) with the intent of either doing something related to medicine or actually pursuing a classical music career. I started to grow disinterested with medicine specifically because of the years of schooling, the immense amount of debt and the growing stress doctors face. As with being a classical performer, COVID has destroyed any chance of that for at least a year and even then I know several professional musicians who “made it” but then end up making pennies and are barely surviving. I would almost rather play semi-professionally and pursue another career that’s guaranteed to make a good living.I happen to stumble across the actuarial profession and I immediately I was interested. Math was always my strongest subject and I finished college with a 3.99 (not sure if that will help with getting internships or anything). I’m genuinely struggling as to whether I should go back to school for some sort of actuarial/data science degree and take the tests while in that program, or if I should just take it upon myself to take the first two tests and learn some of the programs actuaries use. What would be the smartest thing to do? Opinions? via /r/actuary https://ift.tt/34iQkIe