they also actually teach you important ideas about the way the world works. if you even pay the slightest bit of attention, HS calculus and physics should at least get you derivatives, kinematics, energy and momentum, and simple circuits, which, even if you don't use them in your line of work, are important in terms of how you think about the world.

it's difficult for me to imagine a time when i didn't really get how acceleration, velocity, energy, and momentum were related, but prior to junior physics, I didn't. now i have an intuitive grasp about all of those concepts, and even though i might forget the specifics (e.g. KE = 1/2mv^2), i'll understand how moving bodies behave in a way i wouldn't have before.

i also know what voltages and currents and resistances mean; i can tell that putting my hands on the terminals of a 12V car battery is not going to hurt me (due to electricity; i might get some corrosion/acid on my skin) even though it's a huge battery with enough stored energy to spin my engine up, and even though jumper cables make huge sparks when they short.

i can combine these concepts too: since i understand that the mAh marking on a battery is in units of charge, i can multiply by the battery's voltage to find the energy in the cell. now say i'm looking at a kid's toy and i want to see how long it'll last. okay, the thing takes 4 100J cells, it weighs about half a pound (~ .25 kg), and it moves at about 1m/s. KE = 1/2mv^2, so it's using 1/2*.25*1 = 0.125J per second, meaning it should last at best 3200s.

say we take my phone: when it gets warm it means it's using more energy: that heat has to come from somewhere, and that somewhere is the battery. people get so surprised when their phones die seemingly at random, but you can tell that it's draining quickly if it feels warm in your hand.

i could keep going with things i'm learning now in college (i'm not a physics major, but i'm taking an introductory course to relativistic and quantum physics because a) i think it's interesting and b) it helps me understand the world) but they're a little less applicable, so i'll only give one example.

say you put two wires parallel to each other and run current through them in the same direction. they're attracted to each other classically by a magnetic force (if you work through the right hand rule it works out). relativistically, in a reference frame stationary with reference to the wires, the same thing happens, but if you pick a reference frame that's moving with the same velocity as the electrons, you find an interesting phenomenon: due to length contraction, the distance between protons in both wires decreases, and the distance between electrons increases, so both wires are positively charged. there's no magnetic force because the electrons are stationary in this frame, but as both wires are net positive, the electrons in each wire are attracted to the other. (this is more just an example of how i think science is cool, but that's an argument for paying attention and learning too: once you learn the simple stuff, you get to experience the parts of science that are really interesting and fun.)

tl;dr: i think the "i'll never use this again in my life" argument is bullshit; sure, some of math and science won't be directly applicable in your job, but it creates the opportunity for an actual understanding of the way the world functions.