There is some truth to it - almost all tasks can be done without higher math skills in my job as consultant. On the other hand I tend to believe - possibly mis

There is some truth to it - almost all tasks can be done without higher math skills in my job as consultant. On the other hand I tend to believe - possibly misguided - that a lot of my thinking is influenced by having gone through the math education. I may seldom need exponential functions but I know what is linear and exponential by heart. Consultants, engineers, architects and managers work with long levers and knowing how things scale up and down and when they don't matter. Understanding linear systems, frequency domain and where nonlinearity starts mattering informs quite a number of my decisions. Math as a filter for hiring is questionable as imho. most grades. The skills that matter every day are mostly not analytical skills. Universities as they are set up are not well geared towards filling that educational need.