My Experience About Learning English

Since junior ,I began to get to know some English.And It lasted for eight years . By now ,I have one year not touching English,including reading English books,write English articles,so all those have become unfamiliar .
I believe if I won't pay attention to English in a few years ,My English ability will fall quickly.
Some people say a person with an IT job must hold the English closely. Some can't even do everything they can to study English in their leisure time .I can't undertant why. Certainly , we need English to read some documents,but what else? I just can't answer.
The eight years of learning English makes up of my junior and senior life and next two years in the university.In my sense, I learn English well just for exam. When the news comes that we didn't have to study English any more in my third year at our college,we are excited ,we escape from the English teacher successfully,we are saying goodbye to English forever.But now ,just one year later,I startedto become scared,my English knowledge are decreasing little by little .I am afraid my eight years achievement will be none one day .So I am beginning to learn English once more,willingly .
This is just some thought about myself ,if you find some faults or have some advice,just talk ,thanks for reading.

Best wishes to you!