My Dad was born in the 1900’s. He never graduated high shcool. He worked all his life as a manual laborer in the oil fields. Hot, dirty, sometimes dangerous work. He had two sons, no daughters. His rules for his sons was they would go to college and take at least one year of typing while in high school. He missed out on an office job in the 1930’s because he couldn’t type.
He told us boys that we would take a typing class because he thought it was a good skill to know. I told the old man a year or so before he passed that I was so glad he made me take that course. It’s been the most useful class I ever took. Much more than calculus.
Your father must have been a wise man. Growing up, I remember young men were not interested in learning to touch-type. Today, most young men grew up typing on a computer. My sons used software that taught the proper method. Two of them type between 100-120 wpm. Both much faster than my 60 wpm maximum. Another is like the typical guys I grew up with: He developed his own form of typing and rolled his eyes whenever I mentioned the proper form. I argued that the proper form makes everything faster and easier. It’s useful in college and at the office. But, I have to admit, the men I grew up with did just fine with their own method.
I did OK with calc and partial differential equations.
Typing was kind of a pain. Welding was better.
Then there’s home ec.
I am now retired but during my work life, I used typing all the time but never used algegra or calculus.