Why Become a Driving Instructor?

If you find your job mundane, you are stuck in a rut or feel you need to take control of your career then becoming a driving instructor could be for you.

Instead of fitting your life around work you can fit your work around your life. Work / life balance is of huge importance these days and becoming a driving instructor is the ideal way to make this work for you.

Becoming a driving instructor means:

• Self employed. You are your own boss.
• Flexible working hours.
• Meeting and working with new people.
• Low business set up costs
• Huge sustainable market
• Intensive courses
• Lucrative for good instructors
• Excellent career prospects and further qualifications.
• Job satisfaction.

Gain huge satisfaction in seeing someone you have taught reaching their goal. Knowing you have made a real difference to their lives having taught them a life skill.

When starting out, lots of driving instructors worry about there being enough work for them. There is a huge market out there which can be very lucrative for good instructors with new customers coming through every year. When qualified you can set up your own business at low cost or if you are still unsure, you will be approached by driving schools both large and small to be franchised with them. This is something we can advise you on throughout your course.

With so many changes taking place in our industry at present both in the way people will be taking their driving test and the way they train for it, the work load on an already busy industry can only increase, making your timing in deciding to become a driving instructor perfect.

NB: Apart from all the good reasons I've already detailed above for your becoming a Driving Instructor: another important 'lifestyle' one could well be the fact that the skills are portable! For example, a while back one of my erstwhile Northampton Driving Instructor colleagues, Mark James moved his family down to Norfolk from where he now runs his successful Driving Instructor Norfolk business. His 'patch' now covers Norwich and the surrounding areas of Horsford, Fakenham, Dereham, Briston, Holt, as far up as the super seaside towns of Sheringham, and Cromer. Mark's been a fully qualified Driving Instructor for over 10 years, is a member of the Driving Instructors Association, recognised as a DIAmond Advanced Motorist and also the proud holder of the DIAmond Special Test Certificate. For more information on the driving training services Mark can provide, checkout his Driving School Norwich website or contact Mark personally on 07817 778876.