Except your future job prospects! 
Re the OP, I liked Geometry better when I took it, but have used Algebra far more as an adult.
I never had any trouble with any math class until I got to precalc in high school, but I never liked doing geometry proofs. I slacked off way too much in precalc and failed. A few years later when I went to junior college, I took a refresher course in advanced algebra. The course used a computer program to do most of the teaching, while the teacher went around and helped people as needed. I finished about halfway through the semester and spent the rest of the time doing homework for other classes or playing Warcraft II. Then I took precalc again and got an A. At Cal State Hayward I began my CS math classes. Calc I (differentials) was hard but I passed, I guess it was a radical shift in thinking. Calc II (integrals) and III (multivariate) were still hard, but I did better and got Bs. Discrete math was easy. Probability was hard but I pulled a B, linear algebra really kicked my ass though. I’m repeating it now, and I’m finally getting it.
Balance, I throw my broken mechanical pencil at you.
I’m another English major with a preference for geometry. I got through my algebra classes fairly easily, but it was kind of like physics for me-I didn’t really understand it, I just took it on faith and memorized formulas. Geometry, though, was so much fun. I loved proofs. They’re just logic problems with numbers. I took an introductory statistics course in college to fulfill a requirement and was amazed at how simple it was, since I knew people who had struggled with it. I’m sure that it gets much more difficult when you get to more advanced work, but the basics were so obvious and logical, just like geometry.
I became an English Major because I’m not good at Math. Specifically, I don’t like the Spatial part (Geometry, Analytical Geometry, some Calculus). My lack of Spatial ability also made me have a hard time in Geography. I’m a teacher, and I can’t even make a seating chart. I seat my students alphabetically.
It was only years later, when I was on the phone giving directions to the school (physically turning as I explained the turns,using a lot of landmarks, and not able to tell distance), that I was told by a teacher I have a learning disability. I have Spatial Displacement and can’t visualize anything. I can’t even play pool.
It was never caught because back when I was in school (I graduated 10 years ago), the school of thought was Gifted children (like me) couldn’t have a learning disability too (they now know better). The only reason i was able to do well in the higher level math classes was because I had the same Math teacher all through High School, except for Calculus – she moved. She knew something was wrong, and was able to tailor her lessons for me. She even stayed in contact with my Calculus teacher so that I wouldn’t lag behind there. I consider myself extremely lucky, otherwise I would have come away from school with an utter hatred of Math.
9th grade, Honors(smart kids) Algebra 1. Horrid teacher(Mr. LaGank[sup]*[/sup]. The nicknames for that were varied and amusing, by the way. Especially considering that he wore the same clothes every day for a week.) I did very poorly. That is the only class I ever cheated on a test in, and only because I was so desperate to pass something. I barely passed the class.
Honors Geometry, 10th grade. Decent teacher, but I just didn’t get it. The only thing I ever understood in that class were the negative proofs(is that what they’re called?) where you try to prove that it’s not true. When you can’t prove that, then it has to be true. Did so badly in that class that the teacher gave me 2 points so I would pass the year, and only because I’d done all the work. I mean, I went for extra help classes, I did every bit of potential extra credit, and she still had to give me the points.
Summer between 10th and 11th grade. Mom sent me to and Algebra 1 review class at another school. I hated the class, but I got it. it was like a light going on in my head. I went into Average(regular kids) Algebra 2 in 11th grade and aced it. Something like a 99 average for the year, with the same teacher as I had for geometry. This gave me a solid base for the Trig/pre-calc that I took the next year, and I did well in that as well.
Even now, I prefer the ideas of algebra more than geometry. They’re firm rules and formulas, and I like structure in my life. I majored in History though.
[sup]*[/sup]This was not the first bad math teacher I had. I did well in math until 7th grade, and that’s when I started struggling. A combination of poor teaching and not thinking that math was “cool” began my struggles.
Judging by the responses, it seems that there is some substance to the dichotomy proposed by the OP. Me, I hate all kinds of math, but I liked geometry. Go figure. (Pun intended.)
I preferred calculus. I even graded Calc I and Calc II homework assignments during my senior year of college. No, I wasn’t a math major…
I was a comp sci major who would be a music major if I had it to do all over again. Go figure. Pun not intended this time…
It’s called a proof by contradiction. You prove that if the premise is false, a contradiction, such as 1 = 0, results. Therefore the premise must be true.
I generally do not like math, but I can do it – I made it up to Calculus III in high school. I loved geometry though! What a great class. Definitely my favourite math class in school. (I was indifferent to algebra, and IMHO trig was the worst.)
Another English freak here who loved geometry and hated algebra. I hated, hated, hated the mechanics of math (calculations, etc.) but loved the theory. I also had a really crappy teacher for my first algebra teacher, so never got a really firm foundation there. Even up to Calculus, I could handle the theory, but not the calculations.
Algebra person here. Love the visual aspect of geometry but just could never do it.
I always liked geo better, but on the SATS Geo brought my mathe score down a lot.
I’m a math major, but I definitely prefer geometry, just because that’s more proofs and less plug-n-chug. There’s nothing worse than doing extended calculations!
I had straight A’s all through Algebra and Algebra II. In Geometry I think I averaged around a C all year. I just didn’t get it. Plus I didn’t do any work and the teacher barely spoke English and was convinced that there were little green men watching him. He was a bit nuts, and he couldn’t teach.