> I haven't seen anything uses of math in any of my jobs Math didn't "click" with me until well after college, when I eventually caught up on a lot of calculus

> I haven't seen anything uses of math in any of my jobs Math didn't "click" with me until well after college, when I eventually caught up on a lot of calculus, discrete math, probability and stats, to the point where I ended up doing math most of the day as a data scientist. Before I learned math I used to feel like you did, and would argue that math wasn't necessary to be a good programmer. Funny thing is that only once I learned a lot of math did I realize how insanely applicable it was to a wide, wide range of problems I was working on. Because I had to learn it late in life I learned math more enthusiastically than most of my data science peers and so find that even in that domain people don't realize how often they can use math to solve problems better and faster. I wish I had had better teachers in HS that were able to make me realize just how important math is to so many interesting and fun problems. It's sort of shocking to me, looking back at HS, how many math teachers didn't have a good answer to "when are we going to use stuff?". I wish I could take some of my friends making high six figure salaries with a penchant for late night partying to explain to HS students exactly how math is useful because it lets you get a job where nobody cares how much weed you smoke, how late you sleep, and pay your more than many doctors all because you can do some basic calculus tricks. Plus you get to work on really fun problems.