Some flight instructors in the UK get paid 70 pounds STG per hour and are able to sustain a living and are treated with a bit of respect, and not just some Donkey doing an "Apprenticeship" until something better comes along.
What’s the going rate in the US for a CFI $20?
So after your training you will have to factor that into the cost of living and that’s were the fun begins, You will have to come up with new and innovative ways to waste your students time on days when there is no flying so that you can put food on your table.
Now who are the real leeches?
And Buitenzorg, I don't know were you are coming up with your
"How to navigate a Lockheed Constellation across the North Pole by astrolabe"
Sounds like a typical campfire scare story of the big bad JAA bogeyman!
But feel free to throw stones; I have no problem firing them back!