"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
ups.com...

There are two ways to instruct
1) Work at FBO, get lots of hours, make about $15/hr
2) Work for yourself, work between 0-10 hours per week and making $50/
hr. As you build a reputation you will get more hours but its rare for
an independant CFI to not have a second job.

Thank you for this advice! The current situation is that there's a
contract shop on the north side (where I fly now) and a full-time shop on
the south side. I would prefer to remain loyal to my own FBO, but it's hard
to "build a reputation" with zero CFI experience under my belt, so if I eked
along full time until summer and then went back to contracting I'd at least
have some experienced logged, maybe some references...

The company I'm at told me I'd need to take a 23% paycut so I said I needed
that in writing. It took them over a week to get it to me as such, but when
they did it was a 30% paycut along with a rider saying I wouldn't trash-talk
the company by name for six months after I quit, and I had to sign it on the
spot. Who knows what they'll do tomorrow.

By the way, having been in the internet/telecom industry since 1995, I can
tell you guys that another collapse is coming if the upstart companies don't
come up for air. It's like 1999-2000 all over again; sales is writing
checks the technology can't cash, selling products that are not yet
technically possible. Management takes credit for success but not
responsibility for failure. It's like the dot com bubble burst, but all the
people in the industry who weren't directly affected by it are now managers,
making the same bad decisions and creating a new bubble.

I went down with the first ship. Not doing it again.

-c