employment in other sectors of aviation, such as air taxi, instructing
Air taxi: under JAR, you need 700 hours before you can fly for an air taxi operation. Very unlikely to be your first job.
Instructing, on the other hand, seems to be picking up, and lots of people (me included) are getting, or historically have got, instructor ratings in order to build up hours. I am always very wary of people who instruct
just to build time. Remember that the students you will be teaching are spending lots of their hard-earned cash - they deserve an instructor who is enthusiastic, and who is not going to spend the whole lesson complaining that they deserve to be flying a 737 by now. Not to mention that they are trusting their life to you and your ability and willingness to teach them properly. But that only accounts for a very small number of hour-building instructors - the vast majority of them are dedicated, hard-working and enthusiastic, and don't let the fact that they don't plan on instructing forever deter them from doing the best job they can.
As long as you fit into the second category, go for it!
FFF
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