If you want to learn something well, teach it. I do recommend getting on with a flight school part time where they can set you up with some students that want to fly on the days you are available.

Whether you choose to or not though, someone will pick you up and give you a shot.

What I’d really recommend is that you get your CFI-I and teach instrument, since that’s what the interview and training (and the job) will be mostly based on.

A lot of guys getting hired now are pretty low time CFIs and most do fine. In the end, management wants a butt in the seat that’s legal and will work cheap...otherwise they wouldn’t have been paying $18,000/year a few years ago. Generally, most will give you a chance in training so long as you don’t have any big skeletons in your closet.

That said, I’m not sure they’d hire a guy with 250 hours under the condition that he gets 3/4 of his aviation experience necessary after the CJO. You’ll probably have to wait until you are within a few hundred hours of being qualified.