Employment Issues and Stuttering

Trying to find employment became yet another struggle, what work could I do with a stutter? I thought I could work as a simple filing clerk in an office and started to write to different companies. I then had the pressure of the interviews which I could virtually guarantee I would stutter at.

I was accepted after six months of trying by an insurance company, the company had a grading system and I was to be on the lowest grade. The role was simple and mainly involved filing papers. I decided to take the insurance exams and became qualified to be a financial advisor at the age of 22.

The success in the exams helped my career and after a slow start quickly progressed up the grades to become a team leader (grade 6), again at the age of 22. Having a stutter had not hindered my progress but had made life difficult at work. My first promotion led to me having to answer and make telephone calls. The telephone for me was my worst area of speech and I found it especially difficult in the workplace.

The team leader position would put a lot of pressure on my speech as I had to interview people, attend meetings, make pressure phone calls, and appraise and lead a team of ten people. I felt I had reached the stage where I had to overcome the stutter.

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