"Just last weekend I had a long conversation with a guy from a large and fancy flight school about my coming to work for them as a part time CFI."

Don't let the college recruiter know about your second life as an internet "aviation career" basher. I once went to one of their talks at a high school and they had, even me, thinking they were trying way to hard to sell the career to the kids. Stuff about the pilot shortage, everyone retiring, special hiring with the local regional, blah, blah. This was about four years ago.