Originally Posted by
JGonzalez1305
I dont know. Its not really a rush, but more of a "why waste time" type of feeling. Regardless of whether I'd be right seat for 1 month or 10 years flying commercially is what I've always wanted to do. As for my personal life and what I should be doing, I'm 19, married and have a son, so I think that what I'm trying to achieve in flying now would be more beneficial then trying to screw random girls. I'm taking college courses, and other than flying, have a part time job. So I have my hands full now. For those of you wondering, I have my CFI checkride in 3 weeks, so its not like I'm completely avoiding that. Its just that only very few people I met want to be a lifetime CFI, the rest are just using it as a time builder. With this said, I have 800 hours and building, so I kind of don't need to be a CFI. Now before all you start yelling at me, I have the utmost respect for CFI's, after all, it was a CFI who taught me to fly.
Well I can tell you right now, your marriage would probably last longer if you were screwing random girls than if youre on the road 3-4 nights a week at 19 with a child. I hope your wife is incredibly mature and very level headed. One thing you may be overlooking is that as a CFI, you would be home every night and your schedule would be flexible enough to help watch your child if your wife couldn't.
Another poster already said it but I wanted to second the comment: If you think you know all there is to know about flying because you have 1000 hours, then you are the most dangerous pilot out there. You will learn more about flying and being a professional and how to get out of tricky situations by being a CFI than by doing anything else. Believe it or not, being a CFI isn't just about building time. A lot of people actually enjoyed instructing and learned more doing it than they have since, myself included. And if I was flying with some 19 year old punk who thought instructing was useless except for buildint time, then I guarantee its going to be a very long, awkward trip for him/her.