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How to be comfortable at a job? I'm not sure if this belongs here but I honestly don't know where to post. I thought I'd post here because it is related to my stutter. **About my stutter** I'm 19 and I've been stuttering since I was little. I even went to speech therapy in elementary school but I'm assuming it was unsuccessful since I still stutter. There's phases in which my stutter gets better or worse. I'm self conscious about my stutter around people that I don't know. My close friends are used to my stutter so I'm okay with talking to them but not with people I don't know well. I've had people laugh at my stutter, but I know they don't always mean it in a insulting way. **Optional Backstory** Anyways, I've never had a job. In high school I wanted one, but my parents wanted me to finish high school. I did but my parents told me that I don't have to worry about a job. That I can just be at home and only worry about house chores and making dinner every once in a while. So there goes a summer wasted. Then next summer came (aka last summer) but my parents didn't feel comfortable with my working in the summer with covid happening. Last semester I only took two classes (that was all I was able to afford since I didn't get financial aid). It was also all online. I realized I had a lot of free time. I finished the semester and now im at a new semester. I think I could be able to balance a job and classes. **Problem** But because of covid, I've been isolated a lot more. Which means I don't physically talk much. I only talk to my parents and my sister. But in other words, I physically talk a lot less than when I was in school irl. Now I will admit my stutter isn't as bad as others, but it's still a stutter and I'm still self conscious about it. But I really want a job (a cashier) because I want the experience and because I feel like I need to get over my fear of stuttering (and plus I'm 19, literally everyone my age has a job). So I feel like getting a job will make me used to it. But I'm very afraid that costumers will be impatient with my stutter and wearing a mask, im pretty sure I would be difficult to understand. **Questions** I guess what I'm asking is: How do y'all deal with this? As people who stutter, how was your first job experience? How did y'all overcome the fear of worrying about what others think? Any tips?