I don't think 1500 is the magic number a lot of people are led to believe. It seems like many 135 operations are increasing their pay and dropping their mins so getting twin turbine PIC time at 1200 hours and a liveable salary is attainable. You can also get ok pay and fly turbine PIC at drop zones with around and sometimes less than a 1000 hours at places like
http://www.dropzone.com/classifieds...Pac750_pilot_in_sunny_California__168818.html
Aerial survey can pay pretty well and you might want to try on with Air America as I think one of their pilots took a shortened contract that ends in January and the months to build a lot of time are nearly upon us. Flight instructing can be great too as long as you're flying for a good school and have some reliable students. There was an ad for Redbird here a few days ago that seemed pretty interesting. I've had a lot of friends that were CFIs in northern climates see their pay disappear during bad winters and it's very demoralizing having weather constantly shut you down.