Academic: If you are an economics major, when you are looking for papers and materials, it is equivalent to expanding the range of choices, and it is greatly expanded. After all, the academic level in China is generally not as high as that in foreign countries. If you can read English, it means that you have direct access to first-hand information. You can also listen to some TED talks or famous open classes.
Life: The most real example is that when you want to go to Haitao, it will be much more convenient if you can understand the online instructions. Or when you want to watch American TV series, although there are subtitles, no matter how good the translation is, you can't fully capture the jokes in English, so it is very important to learn by yourself.
The importance of the job depends on the specific job, but in short, band 6 is still very important when looking for a job.
Of course, you can't recite words every day, because you only know one or several Chinese meanings of words and don't fully understand their usage, so it can't be regarded as learning. Band 6 is only a very low standard, so it is good to be able to travel by yourself, but the high score of Band 6 is another height.
I want to watch a particularly favorite drama, but what if there is no translation because it is relatively unpopular? This is a direct impact. There are indirect effects. For example, you have read a favorite foreign novel before, of course, it is a Chinese translation. Only after you can understand English for many years can you feel its practical beauty, especially in some details. Books like Twilight are not bad in plot, and the Chinese version looks particularly good, but when you read the English version, you will find that the original is not very good from a literary point of view. Movies like The Legend of Narnia are magnificent, and the original works are just children's story books, which are well written, but aimed at younger groups.