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

[OneUmberJoker]

Maths

English

English language

Maths

English for my career, but also taking art because the art teachers were the ones who were really kind and helped me emotionally.

I think it's a given that everyone needs maths and English, but I would add home economics to this.

I can cook. I understand about good nutrition and I understand about dietary restrictions, allergies and preferences and can make meals for coeliac, vegans and anyone with food allergies without making them ill.

English and touch-typing.

Besides the basics of reading/writing/math;
home ec, which included budgeting, cooking, sewing, clothing care and so much more. Including financial independence.
sociology

R.E. … which was actually much more about philosophy and tolerance than about religion. It helped me thing more deeply, and understand other viewpoints better.

And Latin. I probably use Latin every day to help understand the root (and therefore deeper meaning) of words, to find commonality in different languages etc.

Latin and music. And I was shit at both. Latin helped me understand the meaning of loads of words. Music because I ended up in the arts.

If we aren’t counting English and Maths then the subject I use the absolute most was a word processing short course where we learned to touch type. It’s made so many things so much easier and faster for me over the years. I now have a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing and touch typing made all my assessments much easier to type up. Some first drafts were literally finished in a couple of hours. I’ve also transcribed things for people where fast and accurate typing is necessary.

After that it’s probably a fabric craft short course where we learned to sew as I’m now wardrobe mistress at our local am dram theatre.

Politics O level (I'm old). Politics A level. BA Politics. MA Politics and a job in...Politics. Do something different now but it was a good foundation for the rest of my life.

Drama. I was a shy child but drama increased my confidence which has been very helpful in life.

After that, probably maths - have to use that a lot in life generally, and I had to pass a maths course when I went to vocational school and that went easier when my maths memory kicked in, plus use it fairly often at work.

German. Ended up living in Germany for several years, and now have a sister-in-law there. She's not German! But it comes in useful when I'm visiting her.

English literature and language. Writing has been very important to my career but I actually think my passion for reading was also a very significant factor in my writing ability.

History - how to think and argue and analyse. I do it for a living.

Obviously basics of Maths and English are absolutely critical, but for higher level skills it’s History all the way.

can't choose between math & English.

Latin and economics.

Im not sure, l can do mental athermatic, so probably that. Easy for me to add up shopping and work out percentages.
Other than that only the fact can read. Everything else was a bit pointless, I have never had to explain to anyone how and ox bow lake was formed or recite periodic table since l left school

Maths, but if we don’t count that - Latin. It gives me a second level of understanding of words in English. There’s the English meaning of say concatenation of events. I look at it and think simultaneously the literal meaning of con catena in Latin - “with chain”, and then past participle of evenire, with the ending dropped off.

I read a lot of law and medical research - both use Latin words quite a bit, so I can understand the jargon literally.

This

and maths

The amount of people who can’t type properly does my head in

Geography. It sparked my love of travel.

Reading, Writing and Maths really.
Everything else is just bits and bobs of random knowledge. Some useful, some not. Some interesting, some not.

Maths, but then I teach it.

Otherwise, English Language. It's become increasingly important with so much posting on the internet rather than meeting people, even with autocarrot.

Latin

Maths, but only because not having the GCSE held my career back for years until I did it. I don’t have a job where I need any more than very basic maths skills and all it did was tick a box.

English, reading, writing and communication skills are needed all the time.