Instructing
"I wouldn't let you waste your money, if I could go back 5 years I would have taken a line job and be flying for a carrier by now" Words straight out of the mouth of our CFI.
Yes, I'm not an instructor but I'm adding my two cents, for those who love to teach flying, good for you. Those that whine, quit or call up a union and they'll get a union setup for you in no time. Hoffa(I know) and his teamsters would be more then willing to come up with something for you guys.
The pay at our school is $18/hr and the student pays $40. 45% goes to the instructor, in the real estate market an agent WILL NEVER take home more then 5% of a sale. So you're being paid well enough. If you were flying every day it's 38,000. Not bad when the people at "McDonald's" get paid 6.80 = 15,000 a year. So the student you're "training" will be making half of your bread and butter. so "shhh"
You're the Captain of a Cessna 150 so fractionally speaking the Capt of the Airbus is making less then you. You have ONE passanger, one tiny ship. They command a something larger and thus they deserve more pay. They're getting a dollar a head tops, you 18 per head!
OR lets pay instructors $100/hr, watch how many student's you'll have, how much complaining you'll be doing how you can't pay for parking.
Or just do like sunnysides instructors, steal the students start your own flight school. You'll be making billions(sarcasm). Honsetly if your flight school that is right by your house isnt' good enough, commute to a flight school that's better or make your own, or do a few nose landings and break the planes and put the school out of business if it'll cheer you up.
I had a problem with my flight school, I'd book the plane for 3 hrs and bring it back in an hour and they said "you booked it for 3 hrs and brought it back early, bad" they wanted to charge me. So the next day I picked up the plane flew to the another airport, left the plane there, flew back at night, the plane was gone for almost 10 hours, I was charged for "flight time" two hours, they don't tell me anything about bringing the plane back early. =)
YOU have the power to do anything.