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 / sudden retirement
• Experiencing all weathers without suffering it (!)
• Variable work / life balance
• Excuse for a nice / new car (-cum-office)
• Real sense of earning (esp. if cash !)
• Rewarding encouragement (of others)
• Opportunity to excel (personally)
• ​Taxi-like road knowledge

• Very rapid payback
• ​Insight for dialogue with my own children
• Sense of capability and self-worth
• Minimal homework (after some years !)
• Local knowledge and local engagement
• Satisfaction of skills-development
• Outdoor work (enjoy weather, seasons)
• Continually challenging my pre-judgments
  
• Scope for writing, presenting, 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 !