Instructors & Pay in the same sentence?
Stop whinning and wait it will work. My first month gave me 11hrs. This progressed and now I may manage 25 hrs a week. A 14 hour day 6 days a week is the norm for many and the fact that you would earn more in McDonalds is fairly irrelevant.
Assuming you're doing the instructing bit to gain hours you must accept that the hardship you endure now is worth the long term gain but that doesnt mean that you can't enjoy it.
Over half of those I met instructing had left salaries in excess of 30k to go full time knowing that if they were lucky they may take home 8k. Just accept that you are not going to get a living wage get a credit card, loan, sell granny. Whatever it takes just make sure that you have access to enough money to pay for the petrol to get to work and b4 you know it your 2 yr sentence should be about served and you will find you have 1000hrs more than you started with maybe then is the time to whinge a bit but for now just accept unless you are extremely lucky you are going to have to live with no income for the next few years until you find a school which pays more than 15/20 per hr or you are just gonna have to give up until you can afford it like we all did.
Snigs is right just turn up every day and hope you get more, you will eventually or you will starve at the airfield.
Any instructors out there who feel that this ain't the truth would love to hear from you.