I have an exactly same problem! I'm a language addict but also a hopeless stutterer. And I'm a woman, just turned 40. Stuttering since the age of 4 (according to my mom). So many life opportunities are lost because of this damn speech defect! And it's not funny anymore (it never was, but now everything is just pointless, the whole f\*\*king life is flushed away). Since recently, I was given a chance to work as a medical interpreter. Sometimes, it goes well, sometimes it doesn't, and patients can be very rude and dismissive. Probable, somebody even complained about me being "incompetent" and I'm not getting any jobs anymore... after spending a few hundreds $$ to obtain a recognized medical interpreter certification! After today's appointments, I felt so humiliated - both a patient and a nurse looked at me like I'm a retard and were rude to me for not being able to speak clearly and on time. I cried for hours non-stop, feeling awful. Very demotivating. Knowing my weakness, I'm trying to get into a document translation field, but it's soooo hard. I'm not a linguist by education, which makes me a non-a-first-choice candidate. I will keep trying to get there, and meanwhile continue getting humiliated (hopefully, not much and not often) to recover the costs incurred, at least, and to get experience. If you want, find me on LinkedIn: [linkedin.com/in/mariagregory/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariagregory/) Maybe we could help each other out. Provide moral support, for example.