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I’m a production specialist with a remote corporate gifting company. Absolutely love it. Basically, I’m a project manager, created any kind of branded item you can think of. From apparel to hockey puc...

I'm a systems admin/onsite IT for a manufacturing firm. My fluency used to be dogshit until I got a job answering phones for a helpdesk and the sink or swim environment really got me over it somehow....

Fabricating and installing countertops. I can carry a conversation on a good day but I have a lot of opportunities not to do so here....

I’m a lawyer. My dad, who also stuttered, was a minister and a college president. My daughter, also a stutterer, is a jazz bassist....

I agree, I'm 51 so I don't think that low pay can do for me at all, I finished IT school at 48 and haven't found a job since and I know my speech might be a problem. I am in South Florida too which is...

You know what was the best time of my life in perspective of fluency, when I was working at fast food restaurant, communicating with customer daily, fluency was at peak, I guess because of exposure. T...

What jobs you guys do?

What jobs you guys do? Speaking on the phone is hard, what jobs do you guys do? Truck driver, bus driver, mail handling, customer service. ...

I work on the phone and experience this a lot. People are just thoughtless and ignorant. Over the years I’ve learnt to call people out on it, not be rude or even upset but politely let them know that ...

Saying my NAME has become so stressful

Saying my NAME has become so stressful So I (22 M) have stuttered since childhood. The most challenging aspect (of many), as many of you could relate as well, is that I have always had trouble in sayi...

I’ve represented criminal defendants in court and I stutter saying my name. I’m still an effective communicator. I really think this guy is wildly generalizing and underestimating you and all stuttere...

I wasn’t a teacher but I was a personal trainer/coach for almost a decade. Communication was sometimes difficult while instructing clients but it didn’t hold me back. Showing through demonstration als...

Fellow VO here and person who stutters; it's very interesting how I get a script, do my analysis, and when I add a bumper word and hit record, there is no stutter. Cold reads are my nemesis, but whe...

Teaching is much more than talking and communicating. We have to be patient, empathetic, caring, and above all be a good listener. I think most stutterers are great at these things given our own perso...

I’m a stutterer. I was a music teacher for 10 years, both privately and in a classroom setting. Primarily percussion. The ensembles I taught won best percussion in the state 9 of the 10 years I was ...

Right now I am a teacher with this problem, I just graduated and when I teach to students I can teach them without stuttering, but in front of class it is really hard to control, and in my job intervi...

The issue is 'communication skills'. There are many, many people who don't stutter who have appalling communication skills, and that includes academia. Likewise, there are people with speech impedimen...

In Australia a lecturer with a sometimes severe stutter was named as top lecturer at his university at ranked 14th overal in a competition with 4000. https://stamma.org/your-voice/case-stuttering-le...

Is it right for us to do some jobs just because we technically can?

Is it right for us to do some jobs just because we technically can? Yesterday my professor of social and cognitive psychology was speaking about paraverbal communication and how it affects the way peo...

I'm M29. i can understand what you are going through. make the best use of resources you have. be your own competitor. sometimes life might feel like stagnating or progresses little slower than other ...

I had the same worries and struggles as you have, when I was a teen. What got me though was focusing on my goals and dreams. This helped me to manifest a lot of what I dreamt of having/doing. Now I’...