This sounds like someone who’s salient feature is math anxiety from high school asking how to be a research director at CERN. It’s not just that the salient feature seems at odds with the task, it’s that the task isn’t exactly something you just walk into, while you sound like you’re talking about helping someone overcome a social phobia by taking a part-time job at supermarket checkout. Is your friend someone who wins International Math Olympiads?
This sounds like someone who’s salient feature is math anxiety from high school asking how to be a research director at CERN. It’s not just that the salient feature seems at odds with the task, it’s that the task isn’t exactly something you just walk into, while you sound like you’re talking about helping someone overcome a social phobia by taking a part-time job at supermarket checkout. Is your friend someone who wins International Math Olympiads?