My dream career is to be a flight attendant. However, I have a stutter in my speaking, which is improving at an okay rate. Do I stand a chance?
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My dream career is to be a flight attendant. However, I have a stutter in my speaking, which is improving at an okay rate. Do I stand a chance? I am currently a junior in high school. My dream job is a flight attendant. I love to travel and be a helpful person, whatever the matter. The major issue though is that I have stuttered ever since I was at least 4 or 5, basically whenever grade school started. It was especially awful in grades 4 through 7 when I could not even speak to my teachers or friends without severely stuttering every 2 to 3 words. However, as I have progressed from grades 8-11, I feel like it has gotten better, and I can ask for things like help to an okay standard. I am willing to do whatever to get over this stutter and make it unnoticeable. I am well aware of the intense competition for flight attendant jobs, and how naive I am being by considering it when I shiver and stutter sometimes really bad during presentations. However, do I have a chance in my life to get this job, or will my stutter always come back to haunt me? I see progress being made, and I feel like I have a generally consistent pattern towards becoming a better speaker. I can start general conversations at a good standard, and whenever there are group assignments, regardless of whether I stutter or not, I speak up in front of them and play my part in speaking and participate in conversations, etc. I don't stutter a lot in those cases. It's just that I can not hold my nerve as of now at least in front of crowds. I am able to do it alright sometimes, but I still visibly stutter a noticeable amount usually. And even a little stutter will put me out of the running for a flight attendant job. People who can speak clearly and excellently in high school or anywhere in life as a matter of fact are the people who would have flight attendant level speaking standards, which I clearly lack. So should I be hopeful, or go a different route, even if I feel my stutter improving at a nice rate?