Originally Posted by
usmc-sgt
If someone will hire you or anyone with 250 hours in the next year or so have at it. I think that being a CFI or other is a prerequisite now and will be for the next few years. Being a CFI makes you an all around better pilot but it will not progress your career necessarily, only time on seniority list will do that.
Yeah that's true, but at times you know you're damned if you and damned if you don't. Someone once referred to instructing as
"taking the high road".
It's a judgment call. It all depends upon the individuals circumstances at the time an offer of any kind is made.
atp