My benefits

How is becoming a driving instructor one of the best life-decisions I've made ?  Because of all this :

• ​Utter flexibility  (time, location, people)
• Self-determination  (quantity of work)
• Creative scope  (marketing, design)
• No set retirement age
• No sudden retirement
• Ideal work / life balance
• Excuse for a nice / new car (-cum-office)
• Real sense of earning (esp. if cash !)
• Altruistic encouragement  (of others)
• Opportunity to excel  (personally)
• ​Taxi-like road knowledge

• ​Insight into effective dialogue with my own children
• Sense of capability and self-worth
• Minimal preparation or homework (after some years !)
• Local knowledge and local engagement
• Satisfaction of skill-development (others and self)
• Outdoor work (enjoying weather and seasons)
• Very rapid payback
• No academic qualifications needed
• Scope for writing, mass-education, fleet training, lobbying
• Scope for barter and exchange (a tax-neutral micro-economy)
• Easy to find your car in a carpark ... 'cos of its roofbox !