You should ONLY continue if you are absolutely in love with flying. If its that itch that nothing else can scratch, if shutting down kinda makes you sad, and waking up to go flying is almost as good as Christmas morning.

You will need that love to survive even GA training - especially if you go for your CFI. This industry will squash that love and dream. But occasionally... it will come out, and make it worth it. Maybe you've had the ****tiest week, but after a very helpful ATC vectors you to final and a supportive captain compliments your approach and landing and a few passenges thank you for the flight, it might be worth it.

I am an instructor now with an actually descent job (full time with great benefits). You will find that getting up to a commercial pilot isn't all that difficult, just takes time and money. Getting anywhere after that is where the real challenge lies. You are almost assured nothing without a CFI because ALL jobs want some sort of hours. Even simple freight jobs want 500-1200 hours and after dropping all that for your commercial multi, you will not want to buy any more hours.

But simply getting your CFI and CFII doesn't promise anything. If you do get them, talk with the school first and see if they will hire you afterwards. Otherwise you will have a wet CFI and 0 hours dual given. Just like the airlines, there are thousands of CFIs on the street with thousands of hours dual given who don't meet airline jobs. Unless the school you are at wants to hire you, even part time, I would be cautious.

This is the one reason I actually advocate the so called "pilot mills." Generally they need instructors and are willing to hire their own graduates since they know they have gone through the whole process. And even though the economy is slowly recovering, instructing is becoming a difficult method of building hours. Fewer students going in, fewer students to get hours. Again, if you go through your local FBO this is the likely outcome - not having any work with a CFI and no one wanting to hire you with so few hours. So make sure when you go for you CFI your school will hire you. Even with 100-200 hours dual given, you will be likely to find another CFI gig because that puts you infront of the other wet CFIs.

SOME people get super lucky and can bypass CFIing entirely. They either got jobs towing banners or dropping sky divers. Neither one of them I would want to do because of the repetitiveness. There is repetitiveness in CFIing but there is more variance.

So, there are my 2 cents. Most people I talk to (myself included) would say the this if asked the following question, "What would you tell yourself X years ago when you entered aviation if you know what you knew now?"

Most people would say "Flying is awesome! BEst thing in the world, but do not try to make a career out of it. Get a job in something else that allows you to fly on weekends or even own your own aircraft."