req: CFI job advice

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

Turns out, they don't have to fire somebody for it to get sued for it.
It's
illegal. But many companies either don't know it or they do it for as
long
as they can get away with it.

Your wife may believe that but at least in California the courts have
provided us guidelines for such agreeements to make them enforcable.

(True: We're in Oregon. Different states handle that differently.)

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.