29.12.2006
BEEN DRINKING, CHUM?
BEEN DRINKING, CHUM?
What has been my most disability since the occurrance of the terrible accident back in 1975?
I must state that it's been my terribly drawling voice.
When I'd forgotten to steer my voice in the right manner and thus making me able to speak gently and clearly, my speech has been quite nebulous and drawling, making me sound like a dead drunk man, which is miles from the reality, because I don't drink any alcohol.
Another thing that doesn't make it any easier for me is the fact that I'm a very talkative person, when I get in the mood.
This has been especially discomforting as well as being quite a drawback in my numerous job-interviews.
Obviously the employer won't find a job-applicant trustworthy, if he shows his respect for the job by being drunk, when he attends the interview.
In most cases, when the employer makes his last attempt to discover whether the applicant might be right for the job in mention or just finding affirmation of his suspicions, he asks discontently:
Been drinking, chum?
It doesn't help a bit, but has maybe an opposite effect, when I try and explain my drawling speech as being a consequence of my handicap.
My gesture convinces the employer only better in the decision he's already made;
that this man he sure wouldn't want to hire to his company.
It's an indisputable fact, that the first acquaintance of a person has by far the most impression on one's attitude towards others.
Many a times have I tried to get some cure for my evils.
I've spoken with many doctors, and gone through a therapy-method by Gunnar Eyjolfsson, the famous actor who has a remarkably clear and beautiful voice, and was the owner of a reknowned speech-school.
But all was in vain.