Thanks all for the input,
I must say that I am against the idea of paying for my own type rating.
The problem is I want to fly. At the age of 39 decided on a career change, got my self retrained, did well passed every thing, exams and flight tests, except IR, first time. Thought this might, just might get me a sniff at a job. Sadly I was very much mistaken.
With the remaining money from my redundancy all I would like is to is make my self more employable.
Have taken all advice onboard, think I'll just go into round 3 of CV deployment and save cash.
Safe flying to you all
Flying F