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Interviews and speech fatigue Just hear to vent a little bit. Feel free to read or not. Been interviewing a lot for some jobs recently. Just finished my 4th interview in 3 days. One was in person, the other was a 3-part phone interview process that were lined up on 3 consecutive days. Got another in-person interview tomorrow. Honestly, my actual verbal performance was pretty decent if I had to evaluate myself. Some brief moments of block, but nothing too bad. Minor repetition moments, but did okay. The phone can be a blessing and a curse sometimes - the speech anxiety is real, but it’s also great because you can do whatever you need to in order to get your words out and no one’s watching. For the in-person interviews, face masks have been honestly great despite anyone’s stance on that, for the sake of hiding my mouth. But it’s always the anticipation going into the interview and not knowing how you will speak that’s been the worst overall. The speech anticipation is terrible, and has been so stressful to manage on top of just the normal interview jitters. I feel verbally and mentally exhausted from talking so much. I do my best to stay calm by distracting myself with other things or practicing some deep breathing/relaxation exercises, and am usually calm until about the hour prior to the interview. That pre-interview anticipation has been such a heavy weight, I feel so burnt out from talking. The post-stressful event headache, mental frazzle, and body fatigue are super high right now. But in the end, we keep moving forward and keep doing our best. That’s all, just wanted to vent a little to the community that’d understand me best. Keep going guys. I’m sure many of you have days like this, and even worse comparably to me. This is just me venting from a low point with my speech stress right now. But know you’re not alone. I’ll continue to look on the bright side of things, and appreciate that I’m even getting follow-up interviews. But yeah, stuttering can really be tiring.