I took Latin and French for 4 years (1957-'61)...Not one job required or benefited from either.
“I took Latin and French for 4 years (1957-’61)...Not one job required or benefited from either.”
I’m a doctor, so Latin (3 years in high school from an ex-Jesuit priest) did provide a little bit of direct help to my career. But that’s not the point. It’s not about my job.
Perhaps your understanding of the benefits of Latin is incomplete. For me, the struggle to learn Latin was enormously important in disciplining my mind, much the way math was. In addition, the opportunity to more deeply understand and more directly enjoy the beauty of the greatest minds from antiquity was incalculable. Ten years ago, when I returned to an enjoyment of such things again after a thirty year hiatus, that foundation was enormously helpful in ways I never would have predicted.