All professionals in the Ottomans cities shared common experiences at their business and social life. Entering from an early age, in guilds, meaning close professional group, had teached them how to behave and claim for their rights more as a team than as individuals. They dressed and talked in a way that betrayed their profession, whereas their fellow citizens changed their first or last name according to their profession. The most significant moments in their lives was their nomination. They became craftsman or headcraftsman during a ceremony in the presence of their colleagues. They were considered respectable personnalities and for that attended the community's festivities; in other cases they attended meetings and managed the administration of communal affairs.
During big festive events, they used an unusual moveable platform to performe scenes of their daily work in the stores and workshops. They organized glamorous ceremonies especially on the days of memory of the guild's saint patron. The entire community participated in the feasts for which catered the members of the guild. Occasionally the artisans of a guild would take the responsibility to offer their products for free to poorer fellow citizens. They also did compulsory work enforced on them by the local sovereign or the state; for example transport of goods, building of castles, construction of roads and bridges etc.