UK career
Hiya.
My advice would be to go Fixed Wing and do Rotary on the side if you can.
I’ve managed 5000 hours over 16 years, all through civilian system, and been involved with corporate, training, charter, filming.
However, whilst it’s paid my mortgage, I haven’t got a pension or any sort of plan as to what to do when I retire to support myself.
RW has been awesome; I mean an absolute blast; but I look at some friends who went FW and they’re financially comfortable, and still do a bit of copetering on the side. Whereas I live from month to month in my bank account.
It worked when I was single; it worries me most days now I have kids.
Ref FW atleast initially; get some early years and decent wages behind you, then if your happy on the home financial point of view, then go rotary.