Have you ever learned how to drive a car before? If you did, you may roughly know how much it cost to learn how to drive a car before getting a license. Seeing a car on the road is a very common thing as it is a form of transportation and most young adult will want to learn how to drive once they reach the acceptable age of 18 (in Singapore). I am one of those young adult who wants to get a driving license but it took me about 5 years before I start my first driving lesson.

Why did it take me so long to start learning how to drive a car? The answer to the question is all due to my own personal belief system. Personally, I actually wanted to learn how to drive when I am age 18 but I always quite hesitant about spending the money to learn how to drive as i know from my friends and family members that the overall cost to get a driving license will take about 1500-2000 dollars. A few years back, I see the amount of money being quite significant to me as I have other commitment on hand which stop myself from spending the money to learn and I will usually give myself or my friends the excuse that my family does not own a car, why should I learn it now although my heart tells me that I want to learn it.

During my army days (about 2 years ago), there was a time where I felt quite annoyed about not having a driving license as I stayed in a bulk where 10 out of 12 people had a driving lesson and all of them would start asking me why I didn’t go get my driving license. I even have friends who were willing to lend me their cars to drive if I am able to get my driving license. However, I was still quite reluctant about spending the sum of money and just went to take my driving theory only.

Back to the present, currently I am on the path of learning how to drive a car and how did I actually solve the money issue? Actually, I have always see the money too big of an issue on myself and didn’t really realize that I can break things down into simpler form. How did I actually learn about how to break down the money issue into a simpler form? It all started at the point when I start my first driving lesson after passing my final theory. Whoever pass their final theory is given 2 years to take their practical driving test and I was forced to think of ways to come up with the money to learn how to drive but until the point that I start looking up for driving instructor then I realized that the payment of one hour private lesson is about 22-30 bucks which is quite affordable in the short run and it all depends on the number of lessons that I am taking for each month.

Remember if you want to learn something that will benefit you, go ahead and take the action to do it. There are plenty of ways to break down the finance but if you feel that there’s no urgent time limit for you to learn the skill immediately, you can put that into your wishlist and once you manage to accumulate the money required, go ahead and fulfill your wishlist in order to enjoy the process of learning.

Cheers
Javier