Do you have to love math to be successful in IT? No lol - what a fallacy. It's totally acceptable to be a great developer without knowing how to hand code a bubble sort or how to calculate the tangent of a klabobble. If you want to work at Google then yes, it's probably a good idea to have a CS degree though. I think this person just isn't really sure what she wants though. "In the end, CS just seemed like a dead end job. I want a career." Huh?

I would assume that more than 80% of IT workers worldwide do not know higher mathematics. I've been an IT trainer for nearly a decade and trained thousands of people as well as worked with many as a consultant and I base my guess on my own exp.