helimutt
Don't take this the wrong way. BUT, If you're here with your first post, offering to fly for free to gain hours, asking a professional audience, then you may not like the answers you seek. Why would a professional pilot want to assist someone to fly for free, or more importantly, why would YOU want to fly for free after what was probably an expensive exercise gaining the IR etc?
Said way better than I could have done. Here is the blunt response: I refuse to hire pilots who have offered to fly for free. There are many of us out here who need to fly for MONEY to raise our families.
You may wish to reconsider how you phrase things in the future.
You asked for advice----network, listen, learn, wait.