Being driving instructor is stressful

In the current UK economic climate of credit crunch, becoming a driving instructor or even working as a qualified ADI is a lot of stress and hassle.

Not only do you have to work hard to keep your business afloat by aggresively marketing your driving school, you have to deal with learners looking for very cheap lessons which are not profitable for you, considering petrol costs, insurance, road tax and the fact that you also have bills to pay, and you can only work so many hours in a day before you are totally exhausted without much time left to give to your family.

Due to the lack of driving instructor shortage, many ADIs are resorting to looking for second jobs to suppliment their income, from teaching maths, to driving vans, manual gardening tasks, etc it is really a tough life being a driving instructor at the moment.

This is not made any easy by the fact that the like of red driving school, BSM, AA are constantly advertising for people to train and join an already saturated driving instruction market. Personally anyone qualifying as a new ADI at this time has his/her work cut out, especially if this is going to be their main source of income. A lot of work, stress, worrying and uncertaintity is ahead and it will take determination not to give up in the first year of operating the school/driving instructor business.