I've never understood why people are forced to take math classes. If anything, they should replace those math classes with finance classes, like classes that teach you how to budget, how to do your taxes, etc..

I'm an engineer, so I do use algebra everyday. However, even my more advanced math courses in undergrad and grad were really theoretical and you had no use for them unless you were going on to do your PhD (which I was most certainly NOT going to do). I'd say that nothing above algebra is used in my everyday job life. The rest of math is junk to me.