Poor Boy

I’ve always lacked confidence with numbers and therefore money, I would use my own idiosyncratic ways of totting things up and get there in the end.
When I was around 19ys I decided to ‘improve’ my maths by applying for a job in a pub, got it and plunged in. My,my what an initiation!! I always shook and came out in a cold sweat and the mental arithmetic just became more and more derailed!! After a weeks trial the public an and his wife sat at either end of the bar scrutinising my adding up and writing it all down. At the end of the evening they checked the till against their notes and burst out laughing saying I overcharged and undercharged in equal measure so the takings were spot on!!
They then said I was honest and would get the hang of it soon, which I did.....eventually (I’m a slow learner).
By the end of the year I was running the bar single handed whilst training a new member of staff!
Very little financial reward, but I took a great lesson from the experience.

Hope the boy gets into his stride soon.

Oh dear!
You know when I was young, daft and in my first job (not known for my numeracy) I dreaded being put on a till as I knew that these shortcomings could not be hidden. I would've been too terrified and nervous to count the cash out loud.
I was obviously in the wrong job. In a few years he'll (hopefully) gain confidence. We were all young once and more easily flustered.