Lots of good information in this post and I look forward to hearing the advice that many will offer you.
But I think you are already behind the 8-ball if this is really what you think of instructing, especially since it seems to be one of the more traditional and more worthy roads to the hours required that produce a better pilot in the end to a degree.

I didn't want to instruct right out of the batter's box either, but I can at least appreciate the value of instructing for a time. Later on in life I learned that I very much enjoyed instructing once I felt I had the experience.

Good luck in your quest.

USMCFLYR