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See, I wanted to major in math over engineering because engineering has less math. My husband is an engineer and he does very little math on a daily basis. The software does all the calculations when he runs simulations.
Going through college I'd always joke that "the math is the easy part"
I selected mechanical engineering because when I looked through the required courses it had the most math courses and the fewest english and communications type courses out of all of the available engineerings.
Isn't that true for most workplaces though? You'll end up using some tool that automates much of the heavy lifting and a lot will be meetings and managerial tasks anyways. When you design products you usually have engineers of many different fields that need to work together so lots of it is just talking about how to get it to work together.
For any applied math jobs, which is probably IT related you'll have the same issue.
Whether or not you're right about engineers other than your husband in particular, its probably true that "math" has more math, yeah 😄
Personally I preferred English classes to math classes because they had more English and less math.