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Math, don't how I survived working as a pharm tech for 27 yrs at local hosptial.There was alot of counting every day as I delivered narcotics to nursing units. I did make mistakes in the beginning, as the yrs went by less.It always drove me nuts when a nurse would interupt me while I was counting
I still use a calculator when I do my checking account
 
German. It was all about grammar - not conversation. Now, an understanding of grammar is important, but everyday speech is more useful. Years later when I lived in Germany, I soon discovered that the Germans don't speak anything like what school tried to teach.
Incidentally, my next door neighbour's son, failed French at school although his mother was French and he spoke it fluently.

In my 20's, I grew to like maths. There's a certain beauty in it.
 
In grade school and high school I pretty well liked them all. Unless I had a teacher who was bad or boring. I had a terrible trigonometry teacher (and I like math), and my Spanish teacher was about as boring a human who ever walked the planet.

In my undergraduate work, the only one that gave trouble was oceanography which I loved, but I didn't want to be troubled with learning how to spell the Latin names of all those critters.

In my graduate work, I had to work very hard when we got into math beyond calculus, differential equations, and vector analysis.
Fourier Analysis and Laplace Transforms both threw me for a loop. Computer programming at the 1 and 0 level was at the absolute top of my hate list. I did get to interact with people who could read an advanced math book like I might read a comic book. Some people are unbelievably smart, …. and I came to understand that I am not among them.
 
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Math or Arithmetic as it was referred to back in the day....then Accounting I barely passed...no mathematician here
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now spelling, reading, writing editing were my strong points and still are....
 
Anything that required eye/hand co-ordination. Hopeless at throwing and catching, art/drawing, needlework and playing a musical instrument.

Much better at maths, science, language including French, German and Latin, and theory of music.
 

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