call some companies up such as OAA, CTC, FTE etc.
I wouldn't bother doing that. They will all tell you that now is the perfect time to train and you should hand your money straight to them today to get a job on an A320 or B737 tomorrow.
You probably should have a good think about what kind of flying you want to do and then ask for advice from pilots that already do it, and that's where you may find Pprune to be most useful.