What is your aviation identity? Do you consider yourself as pilot in general and FI just a rating among others or are you an FI and proud of it?
When I began instructing I thought of it as just shomething to do before I hop on to a boeingbus. No longer so... I now find that instructing is what I really want to do. Get all the possible instructon ratings and become the best possible instructor. When someone asks me what kind of work do you do, I reply that I am an FI. Sure is someone offerd me a shinyjet job I would not turn it down
... but I would like to keep instructing on the side.
How about you?