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?

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I've seen jobs with explicit OOP with "[so many] years of experience."  What kind of requirement is that?  These days it's hard to come across a desire for languages that can't even simulate OOP.