do you use your voice a lot in your line of work?

what are some professions heavily involving the voice? anything from receptionist to reading novels...

just curious. (i'm on the phone all day, and i enjoy it)

I do (e.g., in depositions; Hr'gs; client meetings; related stuff).

I am a teacher!

I am (not) a speech therapist.

I answer phones and have to be nice to people all day.

you seem like u'd be a nice phone guy!

I am frequently called "ma'm" on the phone because my hospitality voice is so damn ~velvety~.

me too

I am also a teacher!

velvety hoos

i typically get through my work day without talking to a single person (i work from home and do all my work online)

I used to work for a radio station where half of my day was doing commercials and reports and the other half of my day was spent answering phones for a three-hour sports talk show.

The job I'm in now, I don't have to say so much, which I'm rather thankful for. Now I'm the guy who after hanging up after a conversation with a client, people in the office say, "Gee, you should be in radio!" Thanks! I'll think about it!

not so much now that i'm on the editing end, but when i was a reporter, yeah, obviously. i always wished for a deeper, more authoritative voice. mine's a little nasally, with flat great-lakes vowels. i felt like i lacked the proper timbre to bring lying bastards to heel. otoh, there can be advantages to sounding non-threatening.

(i mostly use my voice at work these days for doom-talk with co-workers about the collapse of print journalism.)

Another teacher!

Teacher, so yes.

i do, though as an introvert i pace my social interaction deliberately to minimize stress, my amount of travel gives me relative freedom that way thank god. when i was on phone support duty i actually got to like being social with customers but i would have splitting headaches from talking and thinking so much lol

I used to work in IT phone support and it was a real struggle to keep the tetchy sound out of my voice.

about half my job is making phone calls so yeah i use my voice a lot

Hah me too snoball, I'm terrible at fighting the crabby impatience with rude/clueless IT customers (which is why I just wont do helpdesk anymore).

i mostly use my voice at work these days for doom-talk with co-workers about the collapse of print journalism

Ha, yes. And when I'm not using it for that, I'm using it to swear indiscriminately at everyone at everything.

i run my parents shop so yeah i tend to use it quite a bit. i have a very nice voice. i think its actually the only bit about me that i can come out and proclaim is great without any doubt whatsoever.

:)

Another teacher!
so yes
but as a language teacher, i try to get the students to talk more than i do

I used to talk a lot when i was in language classes