Fortunately, I excelled in my major even though the calculus courses ate me alive.You just have to find a way to shorten the path of the formulas given to you.

Calculus or trigonometry may seem irrelevant, but it really develops your algebra skills - which are very important in investment analysis. 

Question for you as someone who has passed, would you say that the test in general is more logical and the correct answer will jump out at you given their good study habits or is the test in general more "tricky" like some of those pre-calculus tests we all remember and the first gut response answer may not be the correct one based on a small detail.My favorite example is: Your driving a bus with 10 people on it, at the first stop 7 get on and 4 get off. 

(Economics tell me fewer LTRs equals higher rent prices.)For some people, the calculus might lead them to say the intrusion is not worth the small exacerbation of the housing affordability problem in Denver.

The stuff that's hitting you now sounds like calculus.

I am a spreadsheet and math queen (youngest person in my school district to take Calculus in high school). 

There is so much data out there, every time I came across new or different data my calculus changed.   

I thought of becoming an engineer like my dad, but I hated Calculus; I thought about architecture, but I wasn't creative; I also thought of becoming a doctor, but I don't want to stay in school for 10+ years.

Irrespective of political-calculus, it would seem anyone wanting a job will prove they are hard working as fast as possible.According to the numbers, she did not.

Calculus and the only thing that I have under my belt as far as management is concerned is around 1.5 years as a manager in the food industry.