I work as a waiter, its both scary & great
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I work as a waiter, its both scary & great I work part time on the weekends as server. I worked at the restaurant since my college years during the summer. For years I worked as a host. My stutter wasn't to bad for that position. I did have to answer the phone and that is usually when my stutter would be the worse. After starting my day job I cut back to weekends and maybe a one night a week. A year or so later I was making decent money and working as host Just didn't seem worth it. I really liked my coworkers at the restaurant, and a lot of my friends worked there and used to work there etc. So then it was suggested that I serve. I was terrified and wanted nothing to do with it. It was more of less try it and if you hate it then don't do it. My 1st few weeks were kinda bad with the stutter. If I got bad I would just pause, smile do a little laugh, usually the guest smiles. Then I start over with what I am saying. I think I do better after I show that the stutter is there. Its like ok I stutter, then I can talk a lot more fluent. 90% of the time the guests don't even look up from the menu or seem to really care. Some seem to be a little to nice to me. I have had some people tell me that there proud of me, they have friend, relative w/e with a stutter. I also have had a few cases were people talk really slow to me and it seem they may think I'm slow... After about a month I was no longer scared to approach my tables and start talking to them about other things besides our food, or w.e. It has really helped me practice talking to strangers or people that I really don't know well. Now when I'm in line at the bank or something similar and the person next to me is trying to make small talk, I talk back not awkwardly, and can crack a joke and have so confidence when I talk. I still have some days like last night where it was pretty busy. Valentines weekend and my stutter was acting up for a good hour or two when I 1st got to work. The whole time I was like why do I do this?? By the end of the night It was so busy I forgot about it and was talking fine and having fun. Making a shit ton of money. When I left work I was happy and glad I work there. TL;DR Really helped me get more fluent and face my fears. & People really don't care if you stutter.