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Bit fed up at the moment with work after 13 years of the same old job. Not sure what else i could do really and always quite fancied instructing. So what are the pros and cons of the job?
Do you enjoy it, make much money, are you busy?
My dad went down this route around 6 years ago and he seems to enjoy it but says he doesnt earn much, but also admits he doesnt do many hours!! [through choice]
It would be great to go in with my old man and work together with him showing me the ropes and all.
I have looked at the training with Bsm. Then a view to starting something with or along side my Dad.
Also heard that some instructor schools offer moon on a stick so if you have any opinions on different schools that would also be good.
Thanks
I recently worked with an ex driving instructor (now a sparky) and he says all the adverts claiming you'll earn £600pw are a load of tosh.
There's a load of personal outlay and you'd have to work non-stop to recoup that sort of cash. The hours i.e. working evenings can be a bit rubbish too.
Ooh, look - £30k pa driving instructor job on the Google Flash ad now
There is an awesome ex-driving instructor on here who is now retraining to do something else.
He may be along soon, if he's not too busy kicking up dust or fighting caged animals.
One of my friends recently gave up being a driving instructor after nearly three years.
She said that what really killed it for her was the selfishness of many of her students. They were in the habit of cancelling lessons via text message, often just five minutes or so before the lesson was due to begin. The knock-on effect was that she was left with too much dead time and couldn't earn enough money to make it worthwhile.
Not a lot of pros there! There must be some success stories?
What would be a realistic yearly earning be?
round here, good, well experienced driving instructors are very busy, and can have a bit of choice about when they work. Some don't even do weekend lessons.
Problem is that you get busy by being someone who everyone recommends, so I guess getting into it is hard, and expect building up clients to take a long time.
I don't know whether he enforces it, but my driving instructor makes you sign something saying you'll pay for lessons cancelled at short notice. Given a lot of people will pay in advance for a block of 10 hours at a time (cheaper), I guess he could enforce it if he needed to.
the habit of cancelling lessons via text message, often just five minutes or so before the lesson was due to begin. The knock-on effect was that she was left with too much dead time and couldn't earn enough money to make it worthwhile.
Take several lessons worth up front, no refund for missing lessons.
My tutor just said that if I cancelled twice, with less than a weeks notice he'd just refuse to teach me again.
There is an awe...
He's gonna be a physioterrorist.
Where is smee nowadays is he still on here?
the zoofighter is indeed on here most days. We last properly respected his authoritah on the heel and toe thread: you can look that up for a depressing stw argu-fest and guess which one he is. 😀
I would look on it as a job, not a career...
Dont do it. Most frustrating job ever and not a secure income.
What was so bad about it?
The poor driving standards and attitudes of other people on the roads and the last minute cancellations. You could have a whole day of work lined up and by 10 am have everyone cancel on you for reasons of being skint. People would also try and run learners off the road and overtake them in stupid dangerous situations.
pyramid selling scheme...!
given economic downturn wont we need less driving instructors for a while ?
surroundedbyzulus +1
im a bus driver, at my depot (150 drivers), there are about 20 guys who have done the first bit but cant pass the second bit of the instructors test.
it aint easy, even for professional drivers, the standards required are considerably higher than that for other road users.
i looked into it for myself, decided not to bother when the first thing they do is run a credit check for the 5 grand loan to pay for the training.
dont let me put you off, check it for yourself like.
hope this helps.
5 grand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
can't imagine myself being sat in a car for 8-10 hrs a day. it'd do my head in!
BSM have gone bust.
Don't do it. As mentioned above, you will be constantly chasing students to earn any sort of decent crust- working STOOPID hours and basically living in the car inbetween lessons (which could mean a few hours wait).
The ads need to say that to draw people in.
Sod that.
You also will drive a million miles a year, no really.
You also [b]will[/b] be drive[b]n[/b] a million miles a year, no really.
FIFY
my mate was recently 'let go' from a well known driving school. (they have a COLOUR in their name 😉 and was with BSM and on his own years before...
he has been in the game for 20 years, he now works in another industry and cannot be happier and was glad to get out.
i would storngly advise against it seeing what happened to my mate.
it's hell of a lot of work for little payback.
but each to their own!
You need rocksolid patience 24/7 all year round. Not me.
Also, imagine in Summer when 17yr old Leanne gets into the car in her short skirt and you are sat there checking your pocket for change as she drives along.
Not me.
So BSM has been bought out by the AA.
hora - Member
BSM have gone bust.
British School of Motoring goes bust
by Jon Griffin, Birmingham Mail
AA bought BSM for £1.
Using a basic grasp of business I'd say they AA in the middle of restructuring and planning/dealing with BSM's current structure and the future.
So I'd question the statement 'alive and WELL'.
Alive then thanks to £1 found down the back AA's sofa.
BSM was bought out by some German company AFAIK.
BSM was bought out by some German
Test routes will now involve driving through Poland, Belgium before arriving at the test centre in France.
BSM was bought out by some German company AFAIK.
That article up there says the AA.
Sold for a second time in 2 years then.
They BSM started to struggle when Vauxhall stopped giving them free cars. Knowing the way that firms like BSM are structured and where the risk is there must be a hell of a lot of instructors going under for BSM to be in such dire financial health.
How did that work- Vauxhall (UK?) providing (I assume) pre-reg cars?
Could be Zulu.
Vauxhall gave BSM a car for each franchise, BSM then charged the franchise holder to use the car that they got for free. I suspect that it was for advertising purposes that Vauxhall did this.