Let me add: plan your pension and financial independence.

In pretty much any role in business being able to do a spreadsheet and a presentation are critical. That includes anything white collar/professional in a company, and in consulting, and most of what I would consider “corporate” roles. Usually its MS Excel and PowerPoint, sometimes at more techie firms its Google Suite. For anyone with high career aspirations its even more important. I’m kind of surprised to learn that lawyers don’t use these tools too. How do ideas get communicated? How do you show the value of something, or a list of data, or pros and cons? (I use Excel a ton in my personal life to for making complicated decisions).
I think the point is to know what basic software tools are important in your industry and become proficient. When we have a new hire at any level who can’t do the basics they end up wasting a lot of time. In most roles these days you can’t just delegate to an assistant to type stuff up, you need to be fairly fluent yourself.

Late to the party but anyone touching consumer product development would find 1, 2, 3, and 5 relevant! I’m an engineer, and a truly hope Project Management, Marketing, and Purchasing folks can also handle these as well!

Personally I’d keel over if anyone tried to pry Excel away from me.

My (male) partner is amazing at event planning and it has helped his career to know end.

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I’m a surgeon and have a significant management role and I disagree that you absolutely need these to be a manager in any field. I consider myself pretty successful and these don’t really apply to me.

I delegate excel work and it would never be considered worth my time to do that work myself- we employ analysts who work with data and provide the answers we need. I also delegate writing a business case although I am able to review them and make revisions. I do think most people need to manage budgets at some point, although even that I don’t do the drafting of the actual document myself.