Congrats Stealth and anyone else getting their CFI. I was a CFI for a few years at a University and absolutely loved it all probably as much as I enjoyed 767 international however the pay didn't compare- they only paid us $6/hr in the late 90s. You couldn't pay any undegrad more than any other so CFII = kid putting books up in the library. But more importantly, you never know how little you know until you have to teach it.

As far as training, I remember my CFI training being around 6 hours. It was mostly ground school. CFII was even less. All Part 61 though. I got most of the CFI's I taught down to those mins as well. It helped to be in a location where you weren't caught waiting for multiple corporate jets to land. We flew a 700' pattern and the practice area was closer than where I learned to fly which was a place where I once logged .7 hours waiting for an F117 and Nasa 737 to do landing approaches.

As they say on the airline side, bid what you want and want what you bid. Same applies to being a CFI, do it because you love to teach. As cool as you thought you were as a pilot and even if deep down you thought you were the best, nothing beats watching your students do better than you. It's great.

BTW, best books are the FAA's. We had these fat jepp books that didn't compare.