Any Driving Instructors on here?

[Stevo21]

Is anyone here a driving instructor?!? I'm thinking of changing jobs, from a desk job to an Driving Instuctor. So i'm just wondering how much (roughly) you can make, obviously you have you put effort into it to make it work.

Cheers

Stevo

[Banishit]

mate used to do that, big insurance, lots of patience and alot of hours, in the evenings as people need to do it after work

[lee bishop]

yeah, but think of the girls........................ :tongue:

[SIGYELLOW]

You CAN make some good money in this day and age - there is an acute shortage of any CAREER with the words "Driver/Driving" in it!! I had a brief spell a few years back as an HGV 1 Driving Instructor, but I just couldn't find enough sets of plastic pants to go to work with...

[martin c]

I do HGV 1 driver training and my most common phrase is SLOW DOWN (I'm about to cack myself) Not bad money but can be a bit scarey at times
I feel safer at full chat in a MK11 down a country road!!!!!!!!!

[SIGYELLOW]

As opposed to an old Volvo F7 in a ditch - which is what I had!! May do it again in the future though not sure..

[Stevo21]

Hmmm i'll need to see if i've got the bottle for it then. Might need to visit www.plastic-scants.co.uk. I still fancy it though. maybe do the training and see how it goes from there!

Cheers for the input lads


Stevo

[ders]

Hi stevo,
I done my ADI in 2001 because i wanted a change from driving a class 1 HGV on nightshift, but the money you can earn is not that great. They tell you £400 for 40 hours, but to do 40 lessons you need to work about 55-60 hours beacause of the travelling to get to each lesson. Then there`s fuel, car, insurance, pension plan etc to think about.
I wasted my cash (£2k) on this as i will probably never use it, but it has helped me in the job that i do now.
cheeRS Ders.