So what is your day job?

[Woody Agar]

I always want to know what people do or did in their lives to earn a buck...so here's my 5 cents
Ive been a market mercant and that was a purpose or better a destiny in life. After 18 years working as a male nurse, it was freeing and.....a hell of a job. Right now i gave my so called "portion to fikkie -dutch for familly dog" and retired.

 

[ManilaDawn]

I reset passwords and/or reactivate user accounts of medical and non-medical hospital staff so that they can log in and help the patients. (Although I can sometimes see that they’re just online shopping, on-the-job. Lol.).

Can’t use fragrance at work so I can only smell of oud and attars after 5pm. (Or, while at work, I open a vial and sniff, just like a common addict.)

 

[Perceiver]

I am a restaurant operations consultant.

i keep my oud under my shirt during work hours so i can have a lift and sniff traveling between clients…. i also keep samples in my car so i can smell while on the road between spots.

 

[CyberOud]

I'm a Professor of Cybersecurity Management Practice at an Australian university. I study how (large) organizations behave when they are under cyber attack. My expertise is in organization science, particularly human and team decision-making. So I'm not like most cybersecurity experts that are concerned with the technical side of what goes on inside systems and networks.

Alhamdulillah currently leading a team of international researchers helping Malaysia build its cyber defence capability.

I also have a passion for islamic history. I co-founded islamiclegacy.org some years ago - audiobooks retelling decisive moments in Islamic History using cinematic audio narrated by world-class voice actors.

 

[Amberbreens]

I'm a speech and language pathologist and have a masters in German linguistics, also studied . I have 2 jobs, 2 days I work in a practice, mainly treating children with language development disorders or speech apraxia, or sometimes also give voice therapy to adults as well as treating neurological patients with aphasia, dysphagia, dysarthria.

Little info for parents especially:
A new "epidemic" which I'm specialized in treating is orofacial dysfunctions - you won't believe how many youngsters, kids and also adults have it in some form or another, because parents are not informed and our modern eating habits as well as our posture are extremely unhealthy, leading to the pandemic of narrow palates/upper jaws and with that resulting in long face syndrome, which is not only an esthetic issue but leads inevitably to other health issues, even the risk of developing adhd is now linked to mouth breathing - I can tell you more about all of this, if you think you have a child who has such issues (I am 100% everyone in here at least knows one child who is having the mouth more open than closed or breathing through the mouth at night - but this is just the tip of the iceberg, many kids who are at least nose breathers don't have the physiological tongue position, which leads to narrow palates and unphysiological shaping of the middle face) - so feel free to pm me if you think I can help with this.
Book recommendation for exactly this topic: JAWS - the story of a hidden epidemic. A book that every parent should read.

My other job is being a teacher on a trade school for speech and language pathology, so I'm teaching what I'm working and make new speech therapists, or at least try. You won't believe how little effort/energy most of Gen Z people are able/accepting to invest. Also the intellectual abilities seem to shrink with every new 3 year cycle.

I married my Indian husband in January 2024, we're both Hindu (advaita vedanta/nonduality) and in our private life very much focused on widening our spiritual/philosophical horizon, but my work is very energy-consuming and I work way more than 100%, even on saturdays now, so I feel that there's not much time left for my two passions - natural perfume making and spirituality.

I'm also really hoping to find a way out of the hamster's wheel - I love my jobs with all my heart, but there should be more money for what I'm doing.

Hope this was not too much to read.

All the best
Amberbreens

 

[Sipy]

Cheesemaker 😀

 

[Mr.P]

Cheesemaker 😀

Nice! Any particular type of cheese?

 

[PersonelHigh]

Alan Watts described it in this sense: “We’re along for the ride in an incarnation of self-aware matter and energy able to understand itself, observe the smallest and largest parts of reality, and right when we’ve made scientific breakthroughs, and we are able to peer into what we think the smallest particles or furthest points in the universe are, it suddenly complicates itself more and runs away from us, growing increasingly more intricate and confounding.” He then laughed and threw his hands up.

Alan Watts also said when you get the message, hang up the phone.

 

[Sipy]

Nice! Any particular type of cheese?

We're one of America's last farmsteads up in Vermont. 5 cheeses total - soft bloomy rind, washed semisoft, alpine, blue and an occasional beer washed one.

 

[Shiningrobes]

I’m an artist. Both professional fine art (as in gallery shows and having work in a couple museum collections) and decorative (as in I work for interior decorators making rich peoples’ houses beautiful, lots of gold leaf and murals and sculpted wall panels). The second of the two is what’s nominally paying the bills lately, kind of, so that’s where my focus is. I work for myself and a couple of larger small businesses. It’s extremely stressful sometimes and high stakes working for oneself, but I also occasionally get paid to do things that are both satisfying and challenging. Making fine art and decorative art are related but not the same and I end up using similar skill sets for completely different aims. My profile pic is from one of the last projects I made for an amazing apartment here in NYC. It’s something I’m really proud of because I basically BS’ed my way through the whole process and had to learn how to do a ton of things I really didn’t know how to do beforehand.

 

[Mr.P]

I’m an artist. Both professional fine art (as in gallery shows and having work in a couple museum collections) and decorative (as in I work for interior decorators making rich peoples’ houses beautiful, lots of gold leaf and murals and sculpted wall panels). The second of the two is what’s nominally paying the bills lately, kind of, so that’s where my focus is. I work for myself and a couple of larger small businesses. It’s extremely stressful sometimes and high stakes working for oneself, but I also occasionally get paid to do things that are both satisfying and challenging. Making fine art and decorative art are related but not the same and I end up using similar skill sets for completely different aims. My profile pic is from one of the last projects I made for an amazing apartment here in NYC. It’s something I’m really proud of because I basically BS’ed my way through the whole process and had to learn how to do a ton of things I really didn’t know how to do beforehand.

that's fantastic I would love to see examples of things you've made.

 

[Matty]

Middle-aged retired, but....
I worked most of my career as a welder/assembler/machinist and large bending machine operator for a company that manufactured large propane storage tanks, custom pressure vessels and other related manufacture and repair. I mainly worked on custom projects, mostly stainless steel. Reading blueprints, preparing materials, cutting, shaping, assembling, welding and then pressure testing the product. If I wasn't working on a pressure vessel I would be operating a large 650 ton capacity bending machine, mostly making replacement parts for heavy equipment. A lot of custom contracts big and small. I was forced to retire in 2016 due to a serious cardiovascular event that required several surgeries through the last few years and then developing epilepsy in 2020 as a result of a few complications. I'm in my 40s but live and feel like an 80 year old, forgetfulness and all lol. These days I'm mostly at home taking care of myself, usually reading about fragrance and smelling through my collection of natural materials.

 

[mobyus]

Quality Specialist at a Parking services company in Saudi Arabia. I inspect sites for our on-street and off-street parking business. Keeping errors within control, reduce rework instances, and standards high. (I keep our teams on their toes) 😉

 

[mobyus]

I reset passwords and/or reactivate user accounts of medical and non-medical hospital staff so that they can log in and help the patients. (Although I can sometimes see that they’re just online shopping, on-the-job. Lol.).

Can’t use fragrance at work so I can only smell of oud and attars after 5pm. (Or, while at work, I open a vial and sniff, just like a common addict.)

lol that’s why I don’t surf the net at work (on my phone only).

 

[OudBuzzOas]

I'm a Mathematician working as an Actuary - which basically means my job is a thrilling rollercoaster of spreadsheets and mortality tables. To keep myself from slipping into a data-induced coma, I sniff oud oils throughout the day. It’s my version of office aromatherapy... with a hint of obsession!

 

[AdeelWM]

Family inherited multinational corporation, for day to day affairs running an IT firm specializing in software and AI.

 

[sevki_ak]

After school I've worked in the logistics for 9 months, but that was not my aim. I am doing a 3 years apprenticeship in IT Systems Management (currently in the second year right now) and have several duties like Software License-Management, Asset-Management / Inventory, Procurement etc. also First/Second-Level Support where I help users when they have issues with their computers or certain software.
So far, it is fun.

 

[melkhaldi]

Buildings Architect > Construction technology consultant (BIM) > Human computer interaction/automation/System's Researcher > Undergrad and graduate class instructor > Automation, PLM, Engineering Software Dev in EV-Automotive > Devops in Aviation > Exploring what's next.

* BIM (Building Information Modeling)
* PLM (Product Lifecycle Management)

 

[Sipy]

Damn bro....

 

[Joe]

Would be good to see what we all do as a day job for those of us who work during the day, get to know my fellow ouddicts a little more 🙂

I have a few property and retail businesses which i manage daily from my office. I'm on the road alot of the day going from business to property and property to business and in the office other times. (As well as manage my hobby and business Paradise of Oils )

What do you all do?

I work for New York City’s Dept of Ed. In the HR Admin office. I used to be in a manager position, but was demoted to a much safer civil service job. I was lucky, in the end, to be demoted rather than fired because I got sick and could no longer do my managerial position.

Oh well. I still kept my full pay, and our last pay increase for the new contract kicked in today. 3.25% for the last 4 years. Yay!