{"id":11223,"date":"2012-12-20T16:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=11223"},"modified":"2012-12-20T16:00:39","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T16:00:39","slug":"doing-lessons-over-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=11223","title":{"rendered":"Doing Lessons Over Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve had a number of hits from people asking about driving lessons over Christmas. Some appear to be from ADIs asking if they should <strong>give<\/strong> lessons over Christmas. Others seem to be from learners asking about <strong>doing<\/strong> lessons.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 180px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 180\/180;margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; float: left\" title=\"Christmas Bells\" alt=\"Christmas Bells\" align=\"left\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/xmas_bells.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/>Get one thing straight: if you become an ADI intending to make a living out of it, you <strong>do not<\/strong> turn work away needlessly, and you don\u2019t just do what everyone else does (or says they do) &#8211; you make your own decisions. But where do you draw the line?<\/p>\n<p>Well, you\u2019ll see people boasting how they \u201cdon\u2019t work in December\u201d or they\u2019re \u201coff now until February\u201d, and I think this has spawned some of the hits. Many of these people who pull down the shutters for so long do the job for fun, not to make a living. Indeed, you rarely see them driving around and you never see them at the test centre. They\u2019re part-timers who are living off other financial resources, and while there\u2019s nothing specifically wrong with that, no normal or serious ADI could possibly afford to shut up shop for a month. Even with the oft-cited cancellations you get at this time of year <strong>any<\/strong> income is better than no income at all. No decent businessman whose living depends on it will turn away lessons like that.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, everyone both needs and is entitled to time off. Quite how much time, and when to take it, is an individual choice.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I only ever draw a line through Christmas Day and Boxing Day &#8211; and even then I can envisage scenarios where I\u2019d give lessons if there was a good reason to &#8211; and if I was being paid double time! It\u2019s never happened, but I wouldn\u2019t rule it out on <strong>my<\/strong> conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Let me stress that you <strong>don\u2019t<\/strong> get queues of people wanting lessons on Christmas Day!<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a learner, chances are you\u2019ve been given lessons as a present and you\u2019re eager to get started. Good for you! Check out whether or not you can get lessons over the Christmas period &#8211; many decent ADIs will be working a few days between Christmas and New Year. Those that aren\u2019t might also have funny ideas about not working weekends and evenings the rest of the year, and that might not suit <strong>you<\/strong>, so do your homework before committing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve had a number of hits from people asking about driving lessons over Christmas. Some appear to be from ADIs asking if they should give lessons over Christmas. Others seem to be from learners asking about doing lessons. Get one thing straight: if you become an ADI intending to make a living out of it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,102,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-general-related","category-training"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}