It's not a hobby. It's something I learned in the 7th grade and have not forgotten (yet).
If they can't do it, nobody should be able to do it.
As an engineer/geodesist, I recall that, before desktop computers and scientific calculators, I memorized and actually used the conversion of degrees, minutes and seconds to radians, to 10 decimal places. No biggie.
If you can't do it after a month, you should change professions.