What Career Can a Person With OCD Move Into? A Career Change Guide for Turning OCD Into a Superpower
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OCD is my superpower
Hey Bee Hey! Blogger Bee here to bring you another Taste Of Honey. This week I am coming to you from Maine. I spent the weekend with some Cuckoo Bees. These are parasitic bees that lay their eggs in the nests of other bees. Remarkably, there were two different families of Bees at the dinner table asking questions. The other Bees are called Carpenter Bees. These bees drill holes in wood to create their nests. In our community, as Bees we come together to meet and grab a Taste Of Honey.
“Momma Bee some of our Bee’s here have OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder), and are having a hard time finding careers where they fit in. Can you give the Bees a taste of honey that will help them land careers in industries that acknowledge this superpower?
Taste Of Honey
Oftentimes times OCD is joked about and thrown around to describe people who are constantly putting everything in order. It is looked at as a kind of quirk. On the other side of that, OCD presents a complex dichotomy to others. However, the honey is in the careers that await the Bee with the OCD SUPERPOWER, especially when they’re exploring a career change that aligns with their strengths.
One of the most lucrative careers for a person with the OCD superpower is a software developer. There is no degree needed to break into this career lane. Certificates in Google Cloud and AWS can raise the bar on salary along the way. Software developers' annual salaries vary widely but average around $110,000 - $133,000 in the U.S. as of late 2024/2025. Skill sets you can apply to this role include organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to focus and complete a project with tiny details in place.
When to Get Support During Your Career Change Journey
Don’t let anyone package up your superpower and downplay it as just a person who likes to keep things clean. Many people joke about the reason why you have things organized is that you have OCD, as if it's a disease. Let them know that it's a superpower that pays you over six figures a year. OCD is a valuable superpower. Use it and upscale your career. Let the housekeeper do the cleaning.
Many roles are very OCD friendly, and our career coaches can help guide you through those careers. If you have the OCD superpower and want to upscale your career, then our Career Makeover Package is for you.
Well, thank you, MommaBee, for showing our bees with the superpowers a new career.
Remember if you have a subject matter or question you would like Mommabee to address, send us an email so I can grab you a taste of Honey!!
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At times I feel like I spend too much time focused on little details.
I love this take on ocd as at times it can make working with “normies” very hard. For me I use this super power when doing reports. In marketing we use a lot of metrics to give final results to clients and my ocd has me keeping a close eye on everything and providing clear feedback on the work I have done.
First thing first, thank you Momma Bee for always dropping the honey. As a person with OCD, the myth gets me all the time. I am not a clean freak. I live in chaos. Now things have to be a certain way at all times. I hate people folding my clothes because it has to be a certain way. Things can take a bit longer because it has to be “clean clean” and not “straightening up cleaned.” Which in turn leads to a “not so clean house”. It’s a challenge I fight with in life. But I use it to my advantage. At work, I’m the one who catches the things other people do not see. I’m the one double…
I've been using my OCD superpower to manage conferences and events for the last 15+ years. It's good to know I can apply the organization skills and attention to detail in another field altogether.