So can any of us newly minted CFI's plan on a job other than instructing for a while? I mean it's pretty discouraging to have spent a lot of money on training and ratings, all to find out that no company is hiring, and that huge pilot shortage is in fact quite the opposite it seems like. Not that it's any ones fault, except for greedy executives at oil companies that decide that "hey kids lets go on a family vacation to [insert extremely expensive place] for a week". So they increase oil prices to make up for "unusually high demand"