Love Driving? Career Options For You

If you love driving. Driving along in all weathers, night or day, music on in the background, and new scenery each hour, then the chances are a career in driving is the one for you. There are a few options that you can choose from. Taking a week-long driving trip to picking and choosing your own hours – there are options.

Taxi

In most cases, driving a taxi can be a nice career for a few hours a day. Depending on the city you drive in, there will be license requirements too. You will likely be working for a taxi cab company rather than being a freelance taxi driver. This way, you are most likely to get regular work in the hours you choose to be available. 

Lyft and Uber

If you don’t love the idea of handling cash, but rather people have already agreed to pay via the app, then these might be for you. You don’t have to work every day, you can choose when you do once you have signed up. The sign-up process is really easy:

• Have more than a year driving experience
• Have a 4 door car
• Share the required documents
• Get the app 
• And you’re done!

As for the money you get a standard trip fee, surge (busy areas earn more money), long-distance pickups earn more cash, and if someone cancels, you are likely to get a cancelation fee. And they pay out multiple times a day. 

Trucking

If you want to go further afield, and you like to idea of driving for long hours, then trucking is the thing for you. You will need truck training before you can drive one of these huge trucks, but it is worth it. Driving through the night, and taking regular stops for rest is going to be par for the course if you opt for this one. There is a dispatcher on the other end in most cases, and you’ve likely seen that truckers often communicate through the radio waves. If you are prone to getting lonely, then this might not be for you, but in general, it gives a lot of opportunities to see many countries. 

Driving Instructor

There is a lot to be said for a great driving instructor. They help new drivers feel safe and learn all of the skills required to take to the road for themselves. Teaching the next generation of drivers takes patience and skill, too, though. You’ll need to pass your own driving instructor course. You can then choose to be self-employed or work for a driving school. Whichever you decide to do is up to you. You should probably be a social person to tackle this job because you will be teaching new people day-in-day-out. You will also get the great feeling of helping people on the road to success in their driving and getting them to pass the test. 

Driving can be a lifelong career, and all it takes is a clean license, the right qualifications, and a really great playlist.