Get all of your ratings and start instructing locally, you’ll learn a ton, network, and get your 1500 hours. Go to a regional for a few years then jump back to corporate (I think corporate was your goal?). That way you’ll have options and the experience to choose what works best for you. Just realize that entry level pilot jobs are arduous. It will become a J.O.B. Just like being a physician. Once past the entry level point, it could turn into a great lifestyle for you. You also could keep both jobs, be a contract corporate pilot that departments hire when a guy goes on vacation or requires an absence, best of both worlds.

Pay to play is seen as reducing the value of the profession and trying to just shortcut experience. Both are bad.