better a good chief instructor than a mediocre pilot.
What's your final goal? what do you want to do when you grow up?
There are gazillion applications of helicopters mainly grouped in few industries:
OFF SHORE
HEMS
UTILITY
CORPORATE
each one has a set of requirements without which you cannot progress just choose one you like and step by step go and get the experience you need for the following step. Salary cannot be the only factor, some get rewards from saving lives, some from making passengers happy, some for putting out fires, some for flying the new machine etc.
Someone go through the Tours Industry before the Gulf or the Hems but basically no one can start in the CORPORATE unless you have a personal relationship with the employer and you are in the right spot at the right time but i wouldn't count on luck.
Utility is better in small operations where you can find a Mentor giving you the secret tips you may need when you grow up.
Just choose where you wanna be in the future and go through the steps and pay your dues. We all did and started as a CFI, aCFII a AGI an Assistant chief a Chief or the windows cleaner, the fueltruck driver, the cargo hook marshall, the radio operator the chase support truck driver.
I know you spent a bunch of bucks for your training, you took a student loan not different from a bachelor student, and want to get the first employment to be $60K/year with benefits but it is crisis for doctors and lawyers so we all accept what we can too, as long as we have a job. But you are in the right truck and willing to ask the right questions so you will make it, don't worry.
