Don't get me started on the ASA vs. CFI thing. ASA is a good program, and I know it works cause I have had friends do it who fly jets now. Adn there are probably people out there who should do it. But, being a CFI is not a monster waste of years, it is not a "headache", and most CFIs at FSI are not generic answer givers who don't give a hoot (if anyone has one, then they should switch). Being a CFI, if you have the right attitide, care, and work hard at it, has more benefits then anyone except a CFI could imagine. And personally, I don't care about where I live (Zero Beach), that I fly cherokees and seminoles for a living, because the benefits are so great and will change the person and pilot you are. Its unbelieveable what I have learned since I started here. And all my co-workers agree. Just remember when you make these decisions, and again I am not dissing the ASA program cause I believe it serves its purpose, but "if it looks to good to be true, it probably is" and "there is no subsititute for an education, and once you have it, no one can take it away" (being a CFI is an education). If anyone thinks being in a jet with 300 hrs constitutes an easy road ahead, then you are wrong. The easiest way to see it is you put down 26,000, and you get NOTHING, no rating, no licence, no nothing in return. Nothing to fall back on, no other option. There is no easy road, and this is no exception. My biggest worry is that a bunch of people come into this career now thinking its going to be easy.....