In rec.aviation.piloting, on Thu 30 Aug 2007 06:48:47p, Dudley Henriques
wrote:

I'd give the situation a LONG hard look if I were you before devoting
a ton of time into developing a CFI position full time.
With a family and responsibilities, I'm not saying it absolutely can't
be done, but it's been my experience that it's highly unlikely it will
work out the way you might be envisioning it at this point.

I've known CFIs who also were waiters at restaurants and they said that
they made more money as a waiter than they did as a CFI. They said that
they were just trying to get the hours in so that they could get hired by
one of the smaller commuter airliners or whatever. The way that I
understand it, being a CFI at a flight school is just "paying your dues" to
the eventual goal of becoming an ATP. There are exceptions though... I
knew one older CFI who had retired from some profession and he did it
because he actually *liked* it.