Well I'm not really PO'ed. I like to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. I'm just a little ticked that someone is going to come on to a public aviation forum and talk crap about a group of people that I have so much respect for...and then really lose his cool and talk even more smack when someone points him out. He's not the only person in the world who's had to bust their butt to get where they are. If he has a lot of time on his hands, as he pointed out, then why not add on a second job that is used strictly for flight lessons? We all have to make sacrifices...that's what we do to achieve our dreams. It's a hard road, and it's not always fun...but the end rewards pays off...and it makes you feel even more proud. People will respect you more for hard work and dedication then just sitting back and whining like he's doing. I just hate seeing people do that...because it's crap.

I've had the honor of giving many of motivational speeches to high school, middle school, civil air patrol, and even pre-medical students. I have worked my freakin' butt off to get where I am and it just irritates me to no end to see people sit there and say life isn't fair. Life has never been 'fair' but it's also what you make of it. Hard work pays off. My father made less than 20K a year...raised me, and took care of his mother who was very sick. I give him every ounce of credit I could possibly give a man. He couldn't help me pay for college, though I know if he could he absolutely would have. I was one of those kids who had to get a job just to help pay the rent, but you know what? That's what you do for those you love, and to help make ends meet. I don't complain about that for a second. I'd do it all over again in a heartbeat, with no regrets. It's made me a much better person. No, life isn't fair. But...you can make it worth so much more by having a simple positive attitude. I spent a year in Africa as a missionary...and I'll tell you, if you went there for a whole day...you'd have a much different idea as to what's fair in life. Imagine not having enough food for yourself, let alone your children...because you were born into a region of the world that just isn't capable of providing what's needed to sustain life. That isn't fair. I'm already planning another trip to Nigeria later this year, my own health permitting. Imagine living in the middle east, or another third world war torn country...where you can't live without the fear of being killed. That isn't fair.

Your life is very much fair. If you don't wanna CFI, fine don't CFI. This is America, you can do anything you want to do. Crop dust, banner tow, fly skydivers...but don't sit there and tell a group of instructors who absolutely love what they do that there's something wrong with a young instructor teaching because he's 'inexperienced.' If this were the case...there'd be no instructors. We all start out somewhere...even the older ones.

Still...have fun flying, and stay safe out there.

Okay, maybe I'm little PO'ed. :-D