but only if you are loaded with money and decide to pay your way through...
No, not "Only".
For instance, I work for easyJet and they have a Cadet schem which means, if selected, you get trained from ab-initio through to type rating and, if you jump through all the appropriate hoops, you end up RHS of a 737 or A319. You take on a bank guarentee for the costs, which the company pays, whilst you are on a reduced wage.
Similarly, TRSS is a scheme where again you get a type rating no money down, but get paid less for the first few years.
So coughing up wads of cash is not the "Only" way to score a job here.
just think of all the flying that goes on outback.. along the coasts the scenic flights etc!
I'm interested where you actually are as:-
1) There is less and less of that flying all the time, and
2) There are hoards of pilots after those jobs.