>> As far as I can tell, the majority of people in the world have jobs 
>> like... Telemarketing. Driving trucks. Working in an office doing 
>> filing. Fitting central heating systems. Hotel receptionists.
> 
> Yes, the majority of people do a wide variety of jobs :-)

More precisely: The majority of people are in service jobs. (At least, 
in the UK.) Used to be manufacturing, now it's service.

As far as I can tell, higher math is more relevant to design and 
engineering, which is quite rare.

>> None of these seem to require knowledge of calculus. In fact, jobs 
>> that *do* require such knowledge are seemingly so absurdly rare that I 
>> almost find it difficult to believe they exist.
> 
> I'd say most Chartered Engineers would have used calculus in their job 
> at some point or another, there's 180000 of them in the UK.  Call that 
> absurdly rare if you want.

What's a chartered engineer? And how do you know how many there are?

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