Welcome to life in the real world!!! Things are not that different in civil aviation.The pay is poor for the responsibility,hours are long and in the UK the weather's s***!
Seriously,though you could do worse than to log on to total jobs .com or check out flight international's home page to give you ideas about what and where.As you hold an A&P and not a UK AMEL my ideas of salary and companies may not match yours.
Best of luck!!!