Do yourself a huge favor: finish college. Put some work in at flying when you can, and when you graduate you can really attack it (if you're still interested). Do a lot more research around this site. The page you were referencing with the hiring minimums is from 2007 in the middle of a huge hiring boom (which later fell victim to a tanking economy and begat a boom in furloughs). You can't predict the hiring trends out much more than a year in this industry... you can't really predict ANYTHING out more that a year in this industry, if even that.