{"id":9327,"date":"2012-06-29T13:10:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T13:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=9327"},"modified":"2012-06-29T13:10:29","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T13:10:29","slug":"if-youre-going-to-retire-retire-and-be-done-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=9327","title":{"rendered":"If You\u2019re Going To Retire, Retire\u2026 And Be Done With It!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s quite possible to enjoy being a driving instructor &#8211; just like it\u2019s quite possible to enjoy <strong>any<\/strong> job. However, it seems to be standard practice to s<a title=\"Grumpy Old Man Kit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.toyday.co.uk\/shop\/discontinued\/grumpy-old-man-kit\/prod_4043.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 180px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 180\/279;margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; float: left\" title=\"Grumpy Old Man Kit\" alt=\"Grumpy Old Man Kit\" align=\"left\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/gom_kit.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"279\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a>tart hating work when you get to a certain age. That\u2019s when you officially become a Grumpy Old Git and start annoying people.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that you pick up when you do this job &#8211; indeed, something that any half-decent parent would pick up when trying (and failing) to educate their offspring on certain matters &#8211; is that no amount of advice, tuition,coaching, or anything else you want to call it is going to stop the average 17-year old behaving like every other 17-year old has ever behaved since time immemorial. And usually then some. Likewise, the DSA will always behave like the DSA, and driving tests will always be driving tests &#8211; with passes and fails.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m seeing an increasing number of ADIs retiring (or being close to retirement but still hanging on), stating that they\u2019re \u201cdisillusioned\u201d or words to that effect, who then can\u2019t stop keep sticking the boot in on the industry that the rest of us are still involved with and enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that the old adage about falling into a second childhood as the grey matter turns to jelly is true.<\/p>\n<p>For God\u2019s sake, if you\u2019re going to retire, do it! Just walk away and <strong>retire<\/strong>, and stop keep trying to ruin it for everyone else. Go and play golf, or write letters to local newspapers about things that annoy you (that will fill up the long hours). And while you\u2019re at it, buy <a title=\"Grumpy Old Man Kit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.toyday.co.uk\/shop\/discontinued\/grumpy-old-man-kit\/prod_4043.html\"><font color=\"#800000\">one of these<\/font><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s quite possible to enjoy being a driving instructor &#8211; just like it\u2019s quite possible to enjoy any job. However, it seems to be standard practice to start hating work when you get to a certain age. That\u2019s when you officially become a Grumpy Old Git and start annoying people. One thing that you pick [&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":[80,99,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-funny-related","category-general-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\/9327","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=9327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}