Nonmarketable Skills of Teachers

Education is a tough field.  You learn a lot, every day, and you've never really mastered it.  There are certainly some resume-worthy skills that you develop in classroom management, curriculum development, and so on...but this post is devoted to the ones that are highly important within the field, but will never make the resume.

• Making really, really straight lines -- either drawing them, or with tape.
• Sharpening pencils with remarkable speed.
• Removing staples from bulletin boards with fingernails and sheer will.
• On that note, bulletin board design.
• Super fast counting...between prepping materials (math manipulatives?  yikes!) and head counts, you get plenty of practice.
• Freehand writing in a variety of fonts - neat printing, neat cursive, block letters, bubble letters, we do it all.  And on a variety of surfaces!
• Techniques for extending the life of whiteboard markers.

Teachers, let's hear it - what skills have your time in the classroom given you that you can never use to your advantage in a job interview?

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Currently reading:  after my marathon 14 books during vacation, I'm between books!
Current high:  off to a physical theatre workshop tomorrow with SW - stay tuned for a follow-up post
Current low: overwhelmed by being back in the role of directing, designing, managing, AND producing a single show - I miss my awesome production teams!