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Driving Instructor jobs

  • 05-03-2007 01:17PM
    #1
    EdgarAllenPoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,686 ✭✭✭


    My dad has a full licence to drive pretty much anything (including a tank, he was trained on everything in the army) and is a qualified driving instructor.

    He ran his own business a few years ago but at the time wasn't making much money(had he stayed for another two years he would be fairly well off now but meh) and so got a job in CIE and has been there ever since.

    He hates it and would like to get back into business as an instructor but the market seems so saturated that he probably wouldn't make money on his own.
    He has a problem with the way some of the bigger schools teach people to drive and others would be too small to make a living, what would you suggest he do?
    Is there a school with a decent reputation that doesn't treat instructors and students like dirt?


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  • #2
    Pablo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 476 ✭✭Pablo


    hi GDM,

    What area are you looking for ? As far as I know some of the best driving instructors get known by word of mouth.


  • #3
    EdgarAllenPoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,686 ✭✭✭EdgarAllenPoo


    That's indeed how he got most of his business( and a partnership offer which he now regrets not taking) we live in Meath and he has plenty of experience working the routes covered through the Finglas(mostly) and Navan test centres.

    One of the things that bothers him is that he knows of at least two large driving schools where a student spends the last fifteen minutes of their lesson driving the instructor to the house of their next appointment and then that student spends the first fifteen minutes of their lesson driving the first person home. He says that's no way to teach someone to drive and that it's all about putting arses in seats.

    Is that the practice of most driving schools nowadays?


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