CFI + Part Time Job

clrd4takeoff

clrd4takeoff

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Hello all,

I'm Just curious to know if anyone out there is flight instructing full time and waiting tables part time (or working any part time job). I am entertaining the idea and was wondering how this has worked out for some of you. I am currently unemployed and looking for something that will work out well with flight instructing. I hope to get my commercial/CFI very shortly! I am just trying to plan ahead!

Thanks!
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TL
 
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Hello all,

I'm Just curious to know if anyone out there is flight instructing full time and waiting tables part time (or working any part time job). I am entertaining the idea and was wondering how this has worked out for some of you. I am currently unemployed and looking for something that will work out well with flight instructing. I hope to get my commercial/CFI very shortly! I am just trying to plan ahead!

Thanks!
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TL

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WOW I guess it is gonna depend on the school you work for. You may be kept so busy, that you will not have the energy nor the time. I know a CFI that worked part time as a Bartender, but he was a freelance CFi and could set his own times.
 
A couple of the guys at my flight school work at local places here waiting tables and they do extremely well (sometimes...it is the old person capital of the world) but it keeps the bills paid and keeps the stress out of flight instructing. It can get pretty stressful in most situations with flight instructing considering it's so "feast or famine" but if you've got another job (like I wish I'd done...not anymore my Mesa interview's the 3rd of June) it really helps to balance things out. Just get the job now so you have more selection with your schedule when you wrap up the CFI

Good Luck!
 
I remember I did a quick flight down in Myrtle Beach and the instructor said we had to get back quick or else he'd be late for work.
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I did it for a year and a half until I was able to instruct without the supplemental income. It helps having a job that you can work late evenings as well as having a very flexible boss who can take those "sick" calls when you're called out on a night cross country. Luckily Costco didn't mind me bailing out of "pushing chrome" on certain nights
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I have a full time job outside of instructing and I can usually fly about 30 hours a week. That's with no day off, which can get old. It's always feast or famine, so if the opportunity for flight time is there I take it.

I'm fortunate because I instruct at an FBO. Lots of academies want you to work for them full time.
 
I do avionics work fulltime for Atlas. I also try to cfi as much as possible (technically fulltime). I just finished cranking out 24 credits in order to graduate college. I tell you, I think I burnt myself out. I am having trouble choosing whether building flight time is most important now or earning a decent living, receiving health benefits, and being able to obtain pretty much what I want without having to worry about where the $$$ will come from, three items a cfi position cannot match. Right now I am taking it easy on the flying, just trying to recoop from a LONG semester. Knowing how I am, after a well deserved vacation I'll begin to get extremely busy flying and continue working Atlas(good networking) until I get burnt out again.
 
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I am having trouble choosing whether building flight time is most important now or earning a decent living, receiving health benefits, and being able to obtain pretty much what I want without having to worry about where the $$$ will come from . . .

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That's not a hard choice....FLY!!!
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I am going to be CFIing at my old flight school when I get out of ATP, and was also hired for september to teach violin at the music school near me, to pay my loans off for a year. We have computer scheduling, so I'm expecting to block off my times where I'm teaching violin (weekday afternoons) and come in to flight instruct all the other times. I'm gonna try to convince my instrument students to fly at night.

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Thanks for all the input!

The school I am hoping to instruct for hires a CFI on as an independent contractor. You can come and go as you please.

The pay is really good for flight instructing.

They also use the online scheduling. It is a very good flight school! I just need to finish up my commercial and CFI.
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Thanks again!

TL
 
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