<p>Driving is a life skill and you should try to deal with this phobia at least incrementally. While there are grown-ups who live in city and do not drive and always take public transportation, the reason to have the ability to drive includes the following:
- You might be somewhere where there is an emergency and your friend/parent/co-worker/neighbor/significant other/child/grandparent needs to be driven to a hospital as they are incapacitated or you are somewhere with bad weather and drivers need to take turns
- You might have any kind of career where all of a sudden you need to go on a business trip and public transportation might not be an option
- At some point in your life you might be in a relationship either marriage or other long-term relationship and your significant other is injured and you need to take them to a doctor, to an out-patient clinic for therapy (my dh had minor surgery in May and coul not drive for 3-4 weeks and I needed to drive him home from the same-day surgery as well as drive to the drugstore for prescription and go grocery shopping and do all the family errands
- If you are a parent you will need to be able to perhaps drive your child/children to the pediatrician, perhaps to school and when they are older to endless activities and so on</p>
<p>I am sure there are other reasons but I know that phobias like this are treatable and should not be the basis for determining what kind of career you will pursue. You never know what paths your life will take</p>