If it makes you feel any better I use high school math regularly and suck at doing taxes.
I think the way we explain the importance of high school level math to students is wrong. In engineering school the retired engineers taught us that we aren’t being taught calculus because we’re going to use it all the time, we’re taught it so we can understand why the calculator is spitting out the number it’s spitting out and so that we can understand when that number is clearly wrong. I don’t sit down with a pencil and paper to calculate a derivative or integral practically ever, but I do use the relationship between position, velocity, and acceleration sometimes on the fly.
If we explain to high schoolers that algebra is so you understand the relationships between numbers so you can tell at a glance if you’re being cheated by someone’s math or that you entered the wrong number in the calculator. The goal of trig is to leave you with a better understanding of how physical space works and the basics in preparation for physics.
The goal of a general education is to leave you with a broad base of knowledge. You don’t need to perfectly remember everything but rather have a surface level understanding on a variety of topics with an ability to delve deeper if needed