{"id":5880,"date":"2011-05-08T22:36:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T22:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5880"},"modified":"2011-05-08T22:36:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T22:36:29","slug":"some-things-in-life-are-certain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5880","title":{"rendered":"Some Things in Life are Certain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5881 lazyload\" title=\"Too Many Cooks?\" alt=\"Too Many Cooks?\" width=\"180\" height=\"130\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cooks.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 180px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 180\/130;\" \/>As you go through life, there are some things which are so certain that you can set your watch by them. For example,&#160;if you fall out of the 2nd floor window of your house, you get hurt. If you put your hand in a Flymo while it&#8217;s plugged in, you can forget learning to play the piano. And if you have too many driving instructors, they&#8217;ll all start moaning that there isn&#8217;t enough work to go around and the overall quality of instruction will go down.<\/p>\n<p>Someone should explain that to the Irish, as <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/national-news\/driving-school-in-job-boost-2640815.html\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">this story makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end<\/a>, so certain is the outcome in a year or two&#8217;s time.<\/p>\n<p>A driving school is cynically capitalising&#160;on the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5731\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">new Irish driving test<\/a>&#160;by offering &#8220;scholarships&#8221; to unemployed people. In other words, it is trying to increase its own business by adding more ADIs to the pool. It claims it is to &#8220;take people off the dole queue&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Well, in order to significantly reduce the dole queue it would have to create a lot of ADIs. If it only does a handful, then the effect on the dole queue is negligible. Then, of course, there is the age old issue of whether just <em>anyone <\/em>can be a good ADI (and Ireland has only just got around to trying to sort its seriously flawed driver training system as it is). In other words, if someone is &#8220;unemployed&#8221;, are they necessarily automatically &#8220;employable&#8221; in a job like this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you go through life, there are some things which are so certain that you can set your watch by them. For example,&#160;if you fall out of the 2nd floor window of your house, you get hurt. If you put your hand in a Flymo while it&#8217;s plugged in, you can forget learning to play [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-world-related"],"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\/5880","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=5880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}