an interesting thing happened today

[Hooahguy]

Hillel.
pronounced "Hill-el."

[drone]

Change your first and middle names to John Edgar. Best. Career move. Evar.

[pevergreen]

He changed his middle name yes?

I'm probably going to do the same as pever. Never liked my middle name and it's a hassle on official documents where I have to write my full name. Which is long enough as it is.

I also shortened my first name

Hillel.
pronounced "Hill-el."

Not too bad. It depends how much it bothers you. I went to school with a guy who stutters quite badly, his first name especially.

If it embarrases you, or you get frustrated, its not a bad idea.

On the subject of changing my name, I still actually havent told any legal authority. Drivers license is still wrong, bank is still wrong etc etc....Its been like a month...

[Hooahguy]

Not too bad. It depends how much it bothers you. I went to school with a guy who stutters quite badly, his first name especially.

If it embarrases you, or you get frustrated, its not a bad idea.

once i introduce myself everything goes fine, but its that initial introduction which is so frustrating. and to get a leg up in recruitment into the FBI requires to establish contacts within the agency, so you can get letters of recommendation. but to do so requires introducing yourself.

[Beskar]

I always wondered about changing my name, but it constantly changes. Flavour of the week as it were.

[Hax]

I have been thinking of changing my surname when I change eighteen. I don't think I will, though.

[Cute Wolf]

why are you changing your names? well, you could change your names used for social relationships and documents, but the name your parents gave with your birth will be stayed forever in your mum and dad's heart.... (if you know, my real name is the chinese one in the bracket, I used that for pretty much documents, my name in FB, well, is my Christian name - so my friends didn't have difficulties pronounced that...)

[Hooahguy]

CW i said earlier why i want to change it.

[Mooks]

I have a stutter too, I understand your problem. Jason would be extremely easy to say. In the FBI you might go by your last name alot too so think about that. My name is Preston and it gets me every once in a while since the first syllable is the thing I always trip on.

But for real if your stutter is bad you should look into Ross Barrett's program at the Virginia Medical Institute. Something like SPFS "Speech performance fluency something" I can never remember it. It helped me out alot. It almost completely killed my stutter but I do have minor setbacks every once in a while but thats only because I stop using his techniques. Its expensive though and it lasts 2 weeks (maybe 1 week, they changed it maybe).

Southern people cant speak english correctly; much less a name. Their vocabulary of names is crap, everyone down there is named the same or some boondocks name like "Gator". They shouldnt be technical support even indian people are easier to understand.