Most students don’t think about teachers’ lives outside of school and think seeing a teacher in the supermarket is even weird and out of the ordinary. What if you knew that teachers once had or now currently have other jobs completely unrelated to teaching?

From 1983 to 1991, math teacher Bob Cashill worked for Saudi Ramaco as an industrial engineer. He and his entire family packed up their lives and moved to Saudi Arabia, where they lived in a self-contained community, with housing, American schooling for his two kids who were at the time 8 and 10 years old, and food, all provided for. His job title was an internal consultant, which meant he acted as the person whom departments within the company could come to if they wanted to improve efficiency, if they had questions about manpower, working conditions, etc. After eight years of having the job and the same position, Mr. Cashill and his family came back to the United States just as the First Gulf War was beginning in 1991. He says he would not want to go back for good, but the bond he shared with the other people who lived in the community of 20,000 was irreplaceable, and some of his best friends were met there. “The good outweighed the pettiness and all of the stuff you had to deal with,” he said, “I’d recommend it to anybody.”

“You’re not normal if you don’t get stage fright,” said math teacher Ken Treitler when speaking of the side job which he currently holds. Mr. Treitler started singing back in high school and has continued the hobby/job ever since. Over the years he has sung the National Anthem at a countless amount of sporting events, the largest of them being at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City where he sang it to open up a professional soccer game in front of 30,000 people. Now, when he isn’t teaching, he sings in places such as nursing homes, either with a group or solo. His favorite genre is soft rock.

“The cool factor is what makes me want to do it,” says VHS’s media specialist, Anthony Neglio when asked about his position as a movie screener and focus group member. Since 2012, Mr. Neglio has been a movie screener. He is able to watch movies prior to their release to the general public. He gets emails sent to him whenever there is an opportunity to go watch an upcoming film and is allowed to go to a specific local theater along with a friend, watch the movie, and then proceed to answer a survey about the movie and discuss his opinion about the movie in a focus group. Doing this isn’t as simple and easy as it seems. Since it is basically first come, first serve, even if you have a ticket, Mr. Neglio gets there at least an hour and a half before the start of the movie so that he is first or second in line and has a strategy when it comes to the seats he chooses. He always sits right next to the masking tape covered seat in hopes of getting to sit next to a VIP guest. He describes waiting to see if anyone famous is going to show up as a “rush” and one time got lucky enough to sit directly next to the director of the movie Foxcatcher. With this job, not only is it free and fun, but he can even have an effect on the final cut of a large production even though he is just an ordinary guy. “That’s just cool,” he says.