What does 'a teacher' look like?

I agree, it's more to do with the manner than the appearance that people guess we were once a teacher. My voice carries far too much and I use my hands to explain a lot.
I was often asked if I were German as a child and when our two blonde haired, blue eyed kids were later with me we were taken for Scandinavians.

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I’m convinced there is such a thing as “teacher’s handwriting”

Yes, I have been told that I look like a teacher, too! My teachers wanted me to be a teacher! I did take a two year pre-nursing course because I wanted to teach nursing - but a road accident meant that I had to leave the course after a year. I became a secretary. A prolific reader - I assume it is my use of language, and insistence on correct grammar and punctuation that lead people to think that! That's my excuse, anyway!

During a guessing game, players voted that I worked at a checkout. I am not typically geeky, but I was a computer programmer and website designer! Well i did have a keyboard

I was a teacher and I have four children, and a permanent furrow between my brows from frowning. When I was young a man I fancied asked me if I was an actress. When I simpered “what make you think that?” he said it was because I had a loud voice.

I was once mistaken for a particular headteacher who had been on the tele the night before. I must have resembled her but I hadn't seen the programme and didn't know who my doppelganger was. I doubt it was a compliment.

My DH was looking for someone trespassing at the college of Surgeons and was taken for a consultant. It was his tweed jacket, I think, or maybe his beard.

My son was taken for a doctor at the hospital. He was just visiting. I think it was because he'd googled the symptoms and was spouting a lot of latin words.
Neither DS nor DH are doctors.

Oh Greengran! DH is a retired teacher-likes to be in charge and never says one word when 50 will do. Sometimes I ask for just a yes or no answer which stumps him! Lol!

Many years ago I was at a disco - remember them?! I was mildly amused to be approached by a gentleman who asked me if I was a teacher.... hand on hip, I looked him straight in the eye and replied "I can be anyone you want me to be"!!

Not a job or profession but I've twice been taken for a German whilst in a foreign city! Gahhh.

My family say I'm like the Pied Piper; wherever I am, if there are children they gravitate towards me. I like children's company and find it very easy to engage with them, but I stand no nonsense. People often guess that I'm a teacher or a social worker - and yes, I've been both.

I have some teacher friends and they are all very bossy and opinionated individuals

I was once told that I looked like a farmer's wife, does that count? I was wearing a khaki coloured parka type coat at the time. Now I'm sure that wasn't a compliment.

Yes I have been asked if I was a teacher by a few and a Social Worker by others. I think its more about being assertive that makes people think that way about me.

My daughter is a teacher & is often mistaken for a pupil. ( she is 29)?

Why glasses for a teacher?

I was a teacher too, but have never been asked if I was one, or been told that I looked like one! Perhaps they thought I was too tiny at 5ft nothing!
Mind you I did take over the singing time at the end of DGDs' playgroup once as the regular leader was absent....
And I did notice at our regular hotel in Crete that most of the British women there in the summer holidays were teachers.

People used to think that DH was a police officer. He actually worked for the Foreign Office for most of his working life, and they would say they never would have thought it! Perhaps they were expecting a very posh Civil Servant diplomat type - but he retained his Northern accent all his life. His final job before retirement though was actually the police.

My DD is a final year medical student. Last week a man mistook her for a nurse and when she told him she wasn't, suggested she was the receptionist. She was not best-pleased!

She can spot a medical student or a Foundation Years doctor from a mile away, though.

I think Jo Swinson looks and sounds like an infant class teacher.

My mother once told me that even if she didn't know I was a nurse that she'd know because I am so bossy!!

I think she's more of a supply teacher ExperiencedNotOld

When I taught special needs I was told by someone that all the
special needs teachers he knew looked like me : motherly ! Compliment or not ?

Greenfinch
DD worked in special needs as a supply teacher and she was very young, blonde, slim and, dare I say it, not 'motherly looking' at all.
A yummy mummy?
Take it as a compliment!

You can recognise a teacher by the basilisk stare and the quiet but deadly voice.

The basilisk stare and the deadly voice are only brought out to deal with serious misdemeanours eazybee. What have you been up to??