As graduate students or postdoctoral researchers, we are taught to focus on learning the research that is most closely related to our project so that we can find the edge of what is known and expand the boundary. This is, of course, necessary to complete our research project. However, we often forget to seek out opportunities to develop skills and experience in other areas of our work that are transferrable to a wider set of projects. I will discuss some of these opportunities and specific dispositions that lead to a more marketable future in Mathematics. Ricardo Cortez received a B.A. in mathematics and a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Arizona State University. He earned a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1995 and became an NSF postdoctoral fellow and Instructor at the Courant Institute at New York University. He joined the faculty at Tulane University in 1998, where he is the Pendergraft William Larkin Duren Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Center for Computational Science. Prof. Cortez was the 2012 recipient of the Blackwell-Tapia prize for significant contributions to research and for serving as a role model for mathematical scientists and students from underrepresented minority groups. His research interests include computational mathematics, mathematical biology, modeling, and secondary mathematics education.