Originally Posted by
El Pilot
building Flight hours? Currently have 400 hours CSEL IR with the goal being to get to 1200. The most obvious and effective path would be CFI. However I am not the greatest at communicating and presenting stuff, so I am very apprehensive about the ground teaching portion. Banner towing seems a bit wild and dangerous flying to me. Aerial Survey sounds awesome but I can't commit to being on the road for extended periods of time. Skydiving outfits require 500 and above and prior jump experience. I still continue to fly and split safety pilot time, but It's time to get a job. What is the best job out there when you are low time, but want to stay close to home or at least not being away for extended periods of time?
I think you've gotten to the first step of the "paying your dues" part of the job. You're most likely going to have to do something you don't like in order to progress your career to where you want. You're going to have to pick the lesser of three evils; CFI, banner tow, or be on the road for a bit. Where do you live? If you live in an area where there is a lot of flight training happening, CFI'ing is going to get you the hours the quickest so you can move on to what you really want to do.