Advice
I agree with the previous poster, get your Private Certificate. However, here's more: Buy a 150 or 152 (or similar trainer) for 15,000 and fly the pants off of it. Along the way, get your instrument and do it your airplane. Next up commercial (need a retractable for that, a $5-6,000 training outlay). Route 1) Get a job flying banners or ferrying airplanes, fly a jump plane. Build your time. Route 2) Become a CFI, get your last thousand hours in a year at a busy school.
Skip the $$$ outlay and high pressure at ATP.