The simple answer is no.
The old adage of "How do you make a million quid as a diving instructor - start with 5 million" certainly is true.
But, saying that, I have been doing it for years, and I have lived and worked in the Far East, The Middle East and Australia.
The work-life expectancy of an instructor is only 3 years. After that, you either;
1) Grow up and get a proper job
2) Run out of your savings that have supplemented your instructing income
3) become a manager
4) get bent from so many emergency ascents with idiot students that you can tie up your shoes with your teeth, but struggle to reach the porn magazines on the top shelf.
The world and his sister are PADI instructors, so unless;
1)You can speak 3 languages
2)You have a lot of money to support yourself while you look for a job
3) You get really lucky,
You will need to get yourself onto the PADI homepages and apply for anything going in the Med/Red Sea where the Brit tourists hang out.
Any other sort of Instructor will get work, but will struggle to make the same level of income - regularly - as a PADI instructor.
Sad, but true.
So, the moral of the story is ...
If you are a lucky, blonde, tall, large breasted female who can speak 5 languages (including Russian & Japanese), drive a boat, operate a compressor, repair equipment and suck-start a Harley Davidson, then you may get a job quite quickly ... otherwise ...
Keep doing it for fun.
