 Mehmed Orhan worked as shipbuilder and picture seller at an art gallery in Sao Paulo Brazil, taxi driver in Beirut and Damascus, French Mandate of Syria and Lebanon, a cemetery attendant in the United States of America and an Advisor of King Zog I of Albania.In a 1990 feature in "Life" magazine, he said his legacy is "both sacred and laughable," and said, "To be Ottoman is to know how to breathe with time.