Category: driving careers

Does society require us to drive?

There are a lot of things that people within our society take for granted sometimes. We’ll take for granted that we’ll have food to eat every day, a roof over our heads and clothes on our back. To quite a few people those aren’t really reality. They work very hard week after week to keep…



Why learn to drive? Why drive period?

Where would we be as a society if we didn’t drive our vehicles so often? I do try to avoid driving everywhere, but sometimes it’s so much more convenient to drive as opposed to bike, walk or take public transportation. Planning my route when I have to run errands also means I have more than…



Contagious, isn’t it?

Whenever someone asks me what I do for a living and I tell them I’m a driving instructor, they often tell me it’s not something they would do. I agree that we are a rare group of people, and that’s a good thing, right? Since I train new instructors forYoung Driversof Canada, I often watch…



22 years ago…

This is a day I rarely let pass without some thought; January 29th. You see, this was the day 22 years ago that I was hired to become a driving instructor. It was a day that changed my life. Do you have a day like that in your life? I wanted to change jobs and…