Seventeen is the best age to do this and one of the most awkward ages to fit it in. You have more free weeks than you will ever have again, sitting in school holidays, and you also have exams, coursework and probably a part-time job all landing in the same twelve months. The people who […]
At eighteen this is often the first thing you have bought that costs several hundred pounds of your own money, and the pricing genuinely is confusing, because it is not one bill from one place. It is three bills, from three different organisations, arriving at three different times. So here is the whole thing in […]
Why 19 is a practical age to get this sorted By 19, a lot has usually changed since you first got a provisional licence at 17. You might be starting an apprenticeship, working your first full-time job, or heading into the second or third year of a course with placements that are hard to reach […]
Why confidence dips between weekly lessons If you passed your theory test a while back and have had a handful of practical lessons since, you will probably know the feeling: you finish a lesson making real progress, then two weeks pass before the next one and half of it has slipped by the time you […]
Twenty one is the age at which not driving stops being normal and starts being inconvenient. Most of the people you were at school with passed at seventeen or eighteen. You are in a full time job with money arriving that is genuinely yours for the first time. And the reasons you never got round […]
The scheduling problem for early-career 22 to 24-year-olds This is often the stage where work has just become genuinely demanding: a first graduate role, an apprenticeship moving into its later stages, or a job that involves regular travel to client sites. Annual leave is limited and usually earmarked for things booked months in advance, whether […]
By your mid twenties the obstacle is rarely nerve or ability. It is that five consecutive weekdays are the scarcest thing you own, and every one of them has to be signed off by someone at work. Almost everything about doing this at 25, 26 or 27 follows from that single constraint. Start with the […]
The late twenties is the most common point at which people finally do this after years of putting it off, usually because something forced the issue. A job that needs a licence. A move somewhere with a thin bus route. A baby on the way. A partner who has quietly done all the driving for […]
Most people who reach their early thirties without a licence did not decide against driving. It just never got to the top of the list. Then something forces the issue. A job assumes you can reach a site by eight. A second child arrives and the pram plus the bus stops being funny. You move […]
Fitting a course around the school run and term dates For a lot of people in their late thirties, the barrier to learning has never really been ability, it has been time. Between school runs, packed lunches, after-school clubs and the general logistics of raising a family, a standing weekly driving lesson is often the […]
