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>>2061444Depends, I guess, on at least 3 things
- do you have a knack for it / a bit of natural ability (this is people skills more than flying skills)
- are you working for an organization which is reasonably high quality
- do you have a positive mindset
If the answer to the above 3 is yes, then it's still relatively poorly paid hard work, but absolutely worth it and you will look back on it with fondness from the flight deck of your b747. (as I am!)
to expand a little on mindset:
are you doing this for (your) right reasons? are you mad that you're not flying a shiny jet? are you bummed about the long hours and bad pay?
For me, as a bit of an autist and a general retard, CFI-ing was very, very useful as it taught me a bunch of extremely useful life lessons, as well as a bunch of people skills, not to mention v valuable flying skills. multitasking, fatigue, failures, CRM, ADM, etc.
Many, many, many "I learned from that" moments that turned me from a borderline idiot into a vaguely useful pilot.
Above notwithstanding, another thing to remember if you don't know already is that airlines are usually more interested in your no-tech "people" skills than your technical plane flying skills, which is one of the reasons they like instructors.
If you already have those no-tech skills: well, I guess just suck it up or try some other shortcut e.g. banner towing, PC-12 "SIC", etc.
But if you are a little bit of a people person at least, and you like flying for flying's sake... man, I ponder just throwing in the towel with big planes and going back to being a CFI at my local airfield full time. (I still do, part time) Very satisfying work to improve people's skills - at least to me.
