Your niece has plenty of options. I did not like math either at her age. Now that I see the practical applications of it in society I do. The issue with math could be that she does not understand how to apply it in real life. Maybe it simply needs to be presented in a new light / format by a tutor or trusted professional/friend.

It could also be a genuine distaste or lack of aptitude, and that is o.k. as well although mathematics is important in many more lucrative career paths. It is my experience that students who do not excel at Math typically do excel in another subject such as English or Art. If your niece has an interest in another subject or in a hobby relative to another subject it would be wise for her to nurture that interest and chose a career in that area and/or find a way to relate her interests to a better understanding of mathematics.

Now, for your career question, I would suggest that your niece take a career aptitude test. Her school's guidance office should have one available. If not they should provide additional resources to point her in the right direction.
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Hello, I'm sorry to hear she doesn't like math. But it doesn't have to be a bad point. :)

You don't have to be a genius at math to have a good career in life.
Basic math classes would be good, to help manage her money, do her budget, pay her own bills, and do basic income tax.

Otherwise, the career options are endless.

The best way to explore it is to sit down with kind, patient, open-minded adults that know her, and she trusts. Read books together, discuss her skills.

Is she quiet? Or outgoing?

Is she a giver and want to work directly with people?

Or does she prefer independent work?

Does she like to work with a team? Or work by herself, then report to a team, as needed?

An internetship in the field she may want to work in would be good. Or volunteer work.

Career counselors at community colleges are great in the US. They take the time to discuss things. Have her try that.

Nursing is in high demand these days. So is entry level technical support in software. Careers range from basic, to complicated, and you can have a good career path in both of those fields.

good luck to her!!
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Don't focus on what she doesn't, like focus on what she does like.

Perhaps she (like myself) will start to see the practical applications and start to appreciate it in college.

If she hates it for the rest of her life so be it. What does she enjoy doing? Artwork, Acting, Cooking, Singing, Modeling, Dancing . . . just to name a few.
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There are lots of other courses there that doesn't really involve Math. She can try Nursing which is very in demand all over the world. She can take Medical Technologist or Biology then maybe get Med course after that. She can take up Arts which is better if she's into arts. She can also try HRM (Hotel Restaurant Management) and be a great chef.

It depends on what she likes or her interest. Like I said, there are many courses there that doesn't really require too much Math so there are still plenty of choices for her.
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When you say Math, do you mean algebra?

If so, don't worry about it. 97.3% of NA's never really understand algebra.

If you mean arithmetic, where actual numbers are used instead of symbols, you still don't have to worry much.

There was a time up until the middle 80's when a high-school grad in NA had to know at least arithmetic in order to be employable, but since the advent of hand-held calculators, a tremendous percentage of the graduating high school population were passed without knowing long division.

Further, there was a time when if someone chose to make accounting their career, they were expected to learn the basics of arithmetic in college even though they had been allowed to pass without it in high-school, but then cheep single-user computers became dominant in workplaces that just played with numbers, and those computers were loaded up with packages of accounting software, and the spread-sheet software, such that the required skill came not to be to know how to actually do accounting, rather, how to run particular pieces of software.

i.e., in an interview you might have been asked to demonstrate your ability to set up some ledgers and then do some double-sided calculations, but now the questions will be, do you know Quick books or Simply Accounting?

So don't worry if she doesn't know arithmetic, much less math. All she has to worry about is that the electricity running the computers keeps going, and that her real talent will be skill doing the Easter-egg hunt of finding where the tab is to click to get the software to do what you want.

But there are other things to do in NA that do not involve directing computers to play with numbers. Although there's not much real manufacturing done in NA anymore, if she doesn't want to be a teacher, there's still lots of service stuff.

She could learn to become a hair stylist, or a restaurant hostess, or a checkout person in a grocery store, or a nurse, or anything that involves providing a service that they haven't yet figured out a way to get a machine to do...

... Although that's getting harder for women, because lots of service jobs that only women used to do are being taken over by guys because there are no jobs for the guys anymore, such that now it's common to see male nurses, and male checkouts at department stores, etc.

It used to be that when jobs were scarce it was possible to at least get some land and farm, but that's all been squashed by the industrial farms.

If she's fit and pretty, then one of the more lucrative options for women in NA is to become an escort, or maybe a pole dancer.

As you can see, the options are not great if she doesn't want to be an accountant or a teacher, and in the old days the logical thing to do would be to see where the resources are, and where the climate's going, and move to Siberia, but Russians are getting persnickety about keeping Siberia for Slavs ever since they stopped being babysitters to non-Slavs once Russia became independent from the Soviet Union.

What NA calls the "information economy" is just a euphemistic term for skimming off whatever one can from the flow of currency as it leaves the country for those places where people are doing real work, which most recently has been India, China, Brazil, and now soon-to-be Indonesia (looks like they've got their government in order so it can keep the economic foundation for business to grow on reasonably stable).

Argentina is looking good as well, and even more so given that it will benefit in its southern most regions because of global warming, plus it's still relatively underpopulated given its size and resources.

It's main problem has been bad government for the last century - ruled by upper class oligarchs with no democracy - such that it was never possible for stable business to take root and get large, but it's looking like they are starting to review some of the national attitudes, and if the citizens can claw their government back from the oligarchs as a democracy, it could become a very good place to do business, so she might want to keep her eyes open and think about moving there as an option.
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