okavango,
I did notice you started the same topic simultaneously in 'instructors and examiners' and 'Pro pilot studies' forum.
Either you or one of the admins put one of yours here. So now you have two threads in the same sub-forum.
See your other thread
here
for my last post. All in line with
nibbio86's post. He shows you that if you're way below 31 (not more than 30 if applying for second WHV based on 'farm' work during first) you can do some instructing or flying for charter or whatever..
I suggest you merge the threads.
Daria, you obviously want to emigrate. You may find the way when you have few hundred hours and go over on WHV, for sure. As I said in my essay post nextdoor, having some 'skilled' experience makes things easier.
There are pilots who emigrated to OZ using their engineering, trade or accounting quals and experience.
If you're lucky to fly from now on and don't bother with getting any work experience outside flying airplanes, great. If not, you'd have to play about.
Nibbio86,
if it doesn't work out before your WHV's up, remember one can get WHV to NZ as well. Just apply before you're 31 (EDIT, Okavango's age states 34.. useful for someone else.., N86 looks safe in this way). You know the rules, similar to OZ. Also, you can lodge the application from Australia. Not to mention they offer 23 months' WHV for UK citizens, though technically for 12 months of work only.. ALSO VERY EASY TO DO WORK PERMIT AND RESIDENCE COMPARED TO AUSTRALIA. With NZ passport, you can go work in OZ just like that.. :-D
OR, if you really wanna stay in OZ, pay for one of the tech college's diploma in IT, accounting, whatever on 60points skill list, go to school for one or two days a week max (they specialise in this so that students have FT availability for the job they're supposed to do part-time... Hmmm) which would be your day/days off in your flying job. I'm sure your employer won't say no.
After two years of paying for school (and with some skilled experience as they started to demand due to Indians and Chinese abusing the system a bit for residence visa..) you're more likely to ace the residence visa paperwork.
You probably know the stuff anyway, I just keep typing...