To anybody,

Currently I am sitting on 268 hours of flight time with 136 being Multi.
Starting next week as a flight instructor to build up that time!

Several questions here that I am currently debating in my head:

1. How long should Iflight instruct for? (Hour wise)
2. Should I build up enough hours to get my ATP cert before applying out.
3. And then, where should I attempt to go? Regoinals, Freight, ????
4. Where would be the best place to go be after instructing that would give me the most amount of quality hours in as few years as possible. This being so that I can get the rougher part over with earlier in the career. (building PIC time) To ultimately prevent myself from having to jump around and losing seniority earlier in the career. I would like to be at a solid company in 5 years and stay there, best case scenerio.

P.S. The wife is catching on about the pay and is starting to get pretty ****ed. She is a math and economics major who looks at the big picture and the low pay!!!!

Thanks for the input.