dan_m1les
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Registered: 8th May 06
Location: Burnham, Buckinghamshire
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Evening,
Anyone a driving instructor? Or no any one that is? Looking for a cahnge of job which is a little less stressful and doesnt involve me working 66 hour weeks!
I know the training can be a tad expensive up front, however my main concern is the pay? Does anyone have any experonce in what would be an average wage?
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AlunJ
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Registered: 3rd Apr 07
Location: Newport
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My uncle did it for BSM, couldn't stick working the hours to make the pay.
One of my colleagues used to be a driving instructor, started working with us part time as he wasn't making enough as an instructor, I also know another instructor ho works in McDonald's part time as a manager on weekends.
Moral of the story, you really do have to put the hours in to make anything from what I've heard.
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Ben J
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Registered: 31st Jan 05
Location: Cheshire
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Yep, i've heard you need to hammer the hours to get a good salary.
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: Essex
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my dads mate is one. he likes the flexible hours but has to get loads of bookings to earn decent money.
he also said there is far too much competition nowadays so it's nigh on impossible to attract people without putting prices down.
he relies on recommendations.
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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It's something you can go in off the street and train up to do in a couple of weeks, it's never going to pay well unless you work 27 hours a day.
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am4nf
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Registered: 27th Jul 08
Location: South Ayrshire Drives: Corsa Sport
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Training is around 4 grand, I looked intonit with red
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Rich H
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Registered: 26th Oct 05
Location: West Sussex Drives: E46 M3
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quote:
Originally posted by dan_m1les
Looking for a cahnge of job which is a little less stressful
I can't imagine that comes hand in hand with being a driving instructor tbh!
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dan_m1les
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Registered: 8th May 06
Location: Burnham, Buckinghamshire
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It's got to be less stressful than selling vauxhalls! I'm open to ideas to be fair
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sc0ott
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Registered: 16th Feb 09
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You always see driving instructor jobs advertising with salaries around 30k
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AlunJ
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Registered: 3rd Apr 07
Location: Newport
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quote:
Originally posted by dan_m1les
It's got to be less stressful than selling vauxhalls! I'm open to ideas to be fair
Except you'll be teaching people how to drive vauxhalls 
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Cavey
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Registered: 11th Nov 02
Location: Derby
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My dads done it and doesn't make ends meet, but enjoys the hours.
He's mortgage free, rents his old house out and djs parties so does all right in other areas, but the driving doesn't seem to help him too much.
As said above, since they blanket advertised it everyone has gone for it, so there's 100s of people doing it now
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dan_m1les
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Registered: 8th May 06
Location: Burnham, Buckinghamshire
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Back to the drawing board!
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Twiggy
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Registered: 15th Oct 04
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So saturated its unreal!
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Jord16vSport
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Registered: 3rd May 08
Location: colchester essex
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Normally you pay x amount a week for the rental of the slot and the payment of the car and admin stuff. with red its around £200 a weekBSM and AA are more expensive. You still need to put a lot of hours in to make decent money. I have started to do my training. I only plan to do it for a few years then advance onto something else.
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Jambo
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Registered: 8th Sep 01
Location: Maidenhead, Drives: VXR Arctic
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quote:
Originally posted by dan_m1les
It's got to be less stressful than sellingvauxhalls! I'm open to ideas to be fair
Just selling tbh. Quit and get a decent job. Sales is for cunts.
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