Do many jobs require proficiency in maths or at least a mathematical mind?

completedit

Seems like every job I look at online requires quite complex math. I'm quite proficient using excel, studied economics and passed by hook or by crook(Averaged B's on every module except for the more rigorous mathematical ones which I scraped by which took down my GPA)

Kind of feeling insecure about it if I'm honest. I feel my ineptitude when it comes to maths is holding is going to hold me back from what I want to do

uptherebels

completedit wrote: »

Seems like every job I look at online requires quite complex math. I'm quite proficient using excel, studied economics and passed by hook or by crook(Averaged B's on every module except for the more rigorous mathematical ones which I scraped by which took down my GPA)

Kind of feeling insecure about it if I'm honest. I feel my ineptitude when it comes to maths is holding is going to hold me back from what I want to do

What type of jobs are you looking for?

Heres Johnny

Very few jobs require complex maths at all. A lot require numeracy and you should be proficient enough with numbers to be accurate and able to check you're right.
But complex maths such as algebra, calculus etc aren't a feature of many jobs that are mass market. Of course some do like engineering, financial modelling, computer programming...

mickdw

The level of maths in general in the working population is very very low.
As a Civil Engineer myself, Ive seen some qualified Engineers with little maths skills. Too many it seems study maths with little understanding of what they are doing and because of that then cannot put their maths to use in problem solving or simply forget in short time the learned off methods they used.

FloatingVoter

Unless you're involved in designing computer games, certain fields of engineering (building bridges involves geometry), an astronaut (trajectory comes into play) then the stuff you learned in high school (assuming that due to the GPA reference) are quite useless and quickly forgotten.


As said above, basic numeracy goes a long way day to day. The amount of people on high five and six figure salaries that would have trouble making change at a supermarket checkout if the power went down is beyond belief. They'll rabbit on about Keynesian economics and market shortfalls until the cows come home.

LimeFruitGum

General proficiency in common stats & graphing are enough for me and I’m in quality management. I have worked in companies where they thought I was a genius for knowing how to knock up a pivot chart in Excel It really depends on what you are applying for and how relevant maths are. You can automate a load of data work in Excel or other tools, depending on the work.