Originally Posted by
dera
What's wrong with that? People who have no motivation to instruct should not be doing that.
Nothing worse than CFI's who CFI simply because they have to to build the hours.
Except that airlines are usually looking for prospective Captains, which means instructing and doing much of the same stuff as flight instructors in terms of interacting with people. If you aren't good "teaching", you might want to get out of aviation...