What has been the most important school subject in your adult life?

[Spinneret]

Maths

 

[TippyThomas]

English

 

[wabbott]

A 10th grade class called "general business." Very basic accounting, budgeting and learning how to reconcile a checkbook.

 

[Simba's Mom]

Maths

So good to hear-I was a high school math teacher for 30 years.

My most useful every day was typing.

 

[Kooks and Bay Bay]

Social Studies.

 

[georgina]

Math for me also. I handle all the financial things in our household and math is very useful!

 

[barkley]

reading-in particular cursive.

 

[Praying Colonel]

Typing.

Close second: Drivers Ed.

 

[tvguy]

Introduction to Mass Communications my Freshman year of College.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

Probably at the very beginning, learning to read. Without that, couldn't have done much else.

 

[NannyBeBe]

Home Economics. I learned how to sew, cook, set a table, proper etiquette, and so much more. I also still use the shorthand I learned in high school.

 

[John VN]

In all seriousness -- Study Hall because of the sleeping I did then prepared me well for my retirement's prime activity

 

[amcnj]

I guess overall I most often use what I will lump into English. Reading, writing, vocabulary…. All part of every day. Next I suppose might be the general category of Math.

 

[antmaril]

I actually had two - Typing and Shorthand. I worked as a legal secretary (a/k/a an executive administrative assistant) for 36 years before retiring in 2008.

 

[disneyseniors]

Home Economics. I learned how to sew, cook, set a table, proper etiquette, and so much more. I also still use the shorthand I learned in high school.

The same for me. We also learned how to write checks and balance a check book. I know that's not what people do now with computers, but it helped me alot as a young adult. The cooking was really helpful. The sewing gave me a life long hobby that I love. I used to put all the zippers in for the other students because I loved doing zippers??!!! Crazy, I know. Home Ec was a course you had to take and you could continue it from 9th to 12th grade if you wanted.
Also typing helped a lot.

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

None of my school subjects - from English Literature to Physics - turned out particularly useful in real life. My vocational studies in Hypnotherapy, Counselling and Life Coaching were far more profitable.

 

[Mai Ku Tiki]

After Reading... Social Studies/History