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Just recently discovered this thread and its interesting. To help with your question I would read from the menu. Focusing on the words made me speak clearly and be sure about what I was going to say. As far as part time job. I worked at a gameroom pizza place and would speak to people like I was busy. A lot of jobs want you working all of the time so talking to customers while shuffling retail items or cleaning wasn't out of place, but it also hid my stutter. It wasn't easy at first but as the questions got repetitive it was easier to answer them without stuttering. I went to a speech pathologist all through grade school and continued to stutter until i was probably 24-25ish. In reflection I think being afraid of stuttering every time I talked created bad social experiences. Bad social experiences manifested low self esteem and low confidence which made me avoid social situations. Lack of social situations made me less confident making a bad social experience worse. It really was a vicious cycle. I also developed weird social habits that I forget probably came from my stutter.