 Name: Martin ScottRank on Exit: MEM(M)
Years of Service: 23 years
Qualifications Gained: ELCAS funded Driving Instructor Course
Having specialised in marine engineering, Martin Scott MEM(M) left the Royal Navy in 2008, with 23 years’ Service behind him on aircraft carriers, minesweepers and other points in between. Now out of uniform, he observes that his Service career has helped him to ‘think on his feet and make on-thespot decisions’. Useful attributes in his new career as a driving instructor, where ‘an ability to take everything in your stride comes in useful with new pupils’!
He left the Forces with qualifications including the European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) and DSA ADI (Driving Standards Agency Approved Driving Instructor) (Car). A Career Transition Workshop improved his awareness of the courses available and he used his resettlement leave and ELCAS assistance to complete a driving instructor course with CIA Driver Training in Hampshire, which he found ‘very professional and well structured’.
Eight months into his new job, ‘preparing new drivers to become safe drivers for life’ and ‘retraining/updating the skills of experienced drivers’, he says, ‘I like meeting different people and helping them develop their driving skills. It also allows me to draw on the skills I developed in the Services – training people to operate and maintain complex machinery’.
Being self-employed, as he is now, is quite a change, though – although it means that ‘I can choose my own working hours and there are no long absences from home. And, although I don’t work as many hours, I earn about the same as I did in the Navy.’
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