It isn't the 9 to 5 that you should dread but more like the 5 to 9.
10 hour days are a norm even with salary paying flying schools (few and far between) but all you need is one student wanting to fly before their day job and another wanting night flying and you on commission then the hours really start to add up.
Generally if you are on commission you don't have to be at work when there is no flying.
This is my experience of Oz schools.
ps don't go to the boss looking for sympathy, if you want to run a small flying school your short days are 14 hrs long.
What say Charlie Foxtrot India?
[This message has been edited by Deputy (edited 16 August 1999).]