Object Oriented Programming

As a novice programmer and as someone who started learning programming with C, OOP just seems annoying to me. Seems as though it's easier to accomplish the same tasks without it. Is it actually necessary to learn it?

>>1
Forget about learning OOP.  Nearly all of learning will be memoizing buzzwords associated with simple ideas.  Just take a couple of PLs with support for both ``kinds'' of OOP (e. g. C++ and Smalltalk), if you find out how two of this work, as a systems programmer you'll learn pretty much everything there is to learn about implementation).

>>4
There isn't much use for objects in engineering.  No language/system for modeling, number crunching or FPGA that I can think of and that is actually used requires objects.