Originally Posted by ebl14

Save what money? The $10-15 an hour at 60-70 hours a month, maybe if you are still living with your parents. I do agree that you can gain good expierence flight instructing, but telling someone to instruct till they have 1000tt because they will be a better FO just simply not true. IF that person was going to end up being a good FO, they would be just fine at 500tt, or god forbid even 300tt. 6 months of 1.5 hour flights in a practice area and watching someone do an instrument approach while you stare out the window at the runway in a class D airport is not going to prepare you for the airline world. If you feel comfortable with your flying abilities you would be stupid not to take advantage of a job offer. Do you feel like you can shoot an approach at twice the speed you normally do in your part 91 plane with an engine out, followed by a single engine go around? If you think you can, there is no reason not to take that job offer. However, if you don't and you fail out of groundschool, you will wish you were more prepared since your only choice will be Mesa after that.

In the end, its a personal decision, don't listen to all of these people who think you should flight instruct just beacause they had to "pay thier dues", and in order to feel like they didn't waste a couple years of thier lives they have to tell every young person interested in aviation not to risk the lives of 50-75 ppl because you didn't practice it a million times in a 172. If you are confident enough to think you will make it through training with no problems, don't waste any time. Seniority isn't everything... its the only thing.