+1 with moving into the professional side. I would strongly encourage nothing less than a Dive Master level but to be honest you really need to be looking at an Instructor level - one thought to keep in mind is that all these professional levels come at a cost. I believe that I have spent somewhere in the range of about $2,500.00 so far getting from Master Diver to my current status of ITC. No to mention it has taken a couple of years in the doing.