My Son The Driving Instructor

My son has had a number of jobs, including welding, packing, working with an electrician, but now, to my satisfaction, he has settled as a driving instructor and is now running his own driving school. Although it is a great job with good pay per hour, the work is not regular enough to be comfortable.

Contrary to what the people who sell the 'become a driving instructor' courses seem to say, the driving schools market is competitive and there is often undercutting to try to secure business. (I believe that the person who sold him his training painted a very pretty picture of how easy it would be to get the work once fully qualified).

The compare driving schools website 'ChoosyLearner.com' offers pupil referrals for a fee, so if anyone out there has used them I would be grateful if you could drop me a line and let me know. Looks good, but, 'is it actually good?' is my question! Are they really passing pupils to independent driving instructors like Mike or are they passing them on to the highest bidding National driving school?

With hundreds of directory type websites out there, I know he is not up for paying for something that does not 'do the stuff'. I understand that you generally have to risk something to make something, but how big a risk is it?

Driving lessons are not something that I personally like the idea of. I know that everyone needs them, but I am not sure that I would be a good one to teach them. I am sure that teaching is a satisfying job, but the safety aspect is the bit that concerns me a bit more - driving along at 70mph with a learner driver for the first time? No thanks!

My son would be looking for driving instructors in Harrow or Watford as I assume different areas would have different stories?

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I see that a Gloucestershire village has had to remove signs stating that '20 is plenty' which were intended to cause people to think a little bit more about what speed they are driving at.

They were told to remove them as they were not 'official' signs but were permitted to keep 2 of them which are situated near to a school.

Interesting Something

Since the 1970's microchips have doubled in power and their price has halved. If the same thing happened to cars then a Rolls Royce would do 100 miles to the gallon and would only cost you just 25 quid for a brand new one!

Now I like that idea!

Hobby Horse!

I am a bit of a classic car enthusiast! The smell of the engines and just looking at how these masterpieces were built takes my breath away!

I know that it can sound sad to some, but that is the way it is. Do you not marvel at the fact that this big lump of metal runs and revs when you put the fuel in and swithc it on?!..

Just me then.