Career advice.

I’m currently an early years practitioner, I want a career change as I’ve not had good experiences in nurseries. The staff aren’t very nice and neither is the environment and the money isn’t very good. I want to still work with children or a job that helps people, I just don’t know what jobs I can do. I avoid certain jobs I’m interested in due to academic skills and fearing I’m not intelligent enough. It’s really stressing me out.

My go to website for job profiles for career changes are:
https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/explore-careers
https://www.prospects.ac.uk/job-profiles
https://www.careerpilot.org.uk/job-sectors/sectors

The sectors that kind of pop to mind when you say work with children include social care and teaching. With helping people, it's healthcare and social care. So from the above, I have pulled out the following pages:
https://www.careerpilot.org.uk/job-sectors/childcare/job-profiles
https://www.careerpilot.org.uk/job-sectors/education/job-profiles
https://www.careerpilot.org.uk/job-sectors/medical/job-profiles
https://www.careerpilot.org.uk/job-sectors/social-care/job-profiles
https://www.careerpilot.org.uk/job-sectors/therapy/job-profiles
https://www.prospects.ac.uk/job-profiles/browse-sector/healthcare
https://www.prospects.ac.uk/job-profiles/browse-sector/social-care
https://www.prospects.ac.uk/job-profiles/browse-sector/teaching-and-education
https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/job-categories/social-care
https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/job-categories/healthcare
https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/job-categories/teaching-and-education

I have no idea by what you mean by nice environment and staff or good money (you need to be more specific with these definitions). Most jobs that involve helping people tend to mean you will meet people with all sort of temperments and personalities - many aren't always nice; it's just the way things are. Also occupations that involve helping people are seriously underpaid as many strikes at the NHS would suggest.

I also have no idea what you mean by not intelligent enough or poor academic skills. You would need to be specific with this as well. Poor in what respect? Can't do maths? Can't write? Can't string a sentence together? Poor memory? Can't put an argument together to save your life?
Intelligence in what respect? Social intelligence? Numeracy? Spatial intelligence? Verbal reasoning?
If you like people, then surely you don't have appalling social intelligence. If you are able to string sentences together, then I would doubt you lack verbal reasoning.
I might say it's a lack of self confidence, but then again I would be speculating since I know very little about you. Be specific if you want help in this area.

Thank you! I mean when I have previously worked in nurseries the staff have been horrible , the pay isn’t good and because the staff aren’t nice the nurseries aren’t nice environment so therefore I’d like to change career. Fear of not being smart enough- I was really bad at maths in school, the thought of doing exam level maths give me severe anxiety as I feel I’d do it and fail as most jobs do require maths and in the past I also had teachers who mocked me for being bad at maths. I’ve thought about stuff like primary teaching, mental health nursing but they require maths everyday in their working life so I don’t leave myself with many career options as I push half of them away.

Again, you might want to be more specific when you say "bad at maths". It's a generalised statement, and it's difficult to pin point the problem without knowing the specifics.

There might be a chance that you had a bad maths teacher (or a teacher you're incompatible with). The mocking definitely doesn't help if you have low self esteem.

Do note, maths isn't a skill that you can learn right off the bat. It takes practice and a lot of trials and experimentation. The best mathematicians (even those who won Field Medals) go through the same rut and go through the same problems.

Should I presume you have GCSE Maths? If so, you should be fine with any job that involves nursing, teaching (other than teaching maths at secondary level or college level), socail care, or general healthcare. The maths involve generally isn't particularly challenging.

If on the other hand you told me that you want a career in actuarial science, financial engineering, quants, maths, economics, engineering, physics, or data, then I would err on the side of caution. Since this is not the case, you should be OK.

I was in the lowest class in maths all the time, struggled to pass any maths tests. Can do basic maths but nothing too complex, I don’t seem to understand maths very well.. I have trouble understanding it. I can’t specifically say I’m bad at “this” in maths, it’s different things. I don’t have GSCE maths as I struggled with maths, so having to do GSCE maths at college or whatever gives me severe anxiety as without anyone helping me with maths I seem to crumble. It’s annoying me as it’s giving me low self esteem and makes me feel incapable to do jobs involving maths, I am good at English so it annoys me as feel maths holds me back.

I just looked up the symptoms for dyscalculia, I’m not as severe as that.. I’m not sure it’s maybe been the teachers as they weren’t very helpful and I didn’t practice my maths often so I’m not sure I just didn’t try hard enough. I find maths confusing until It’s explained to me, I do need assistance to understand some of it. I want to be a primary teacher I’m just scared of when they make you teach the older ones during placement.

I tend to avoid certain Jobs like Sales Assistant or Customer Assistant because I am not really good at Maths Aswell.

Speak to a maths tutor/teacher at college for the maths issues. It's difficult for me to help you here.

I am not sure whether you have looked into the pathway to becoming a primary teacher, but the quickest way is to do a BEd/BA in Primary Education with QTS (QTS is the most important bit, without it you can't teach at all) - total of 3 years.
If you don't want to do a BEd or BA in Primary education, you would need an undergrad in any subject + 2 year PGCE in Primary Education with QTS (Primary education and QTS being important) - minimum of 5 years.

I tend to avoid certain Jobs like Sales Assistant or Customer Assistant because I am not really good at Maths Aswell.

Yeah I agree, I just looked at the GSCE maths and I understood some of it but not all of it, some of it’s confusing. I’m just scared I sat the maths at college and didn’t pass the exam, as exams are intense and you feel stressed and can forget stuff.

So a combination of maths tutorials and exam practice? To sit the exams well, you need to do a lot of past papers, ideally under timed conditions so you would get used to it.

Yes I agree, I don’t know why you need GSCE anyway as primary maths isn’t high school maths so I don’t know why you need that level.