The most true quote I've heard...The best way to make a small fortune in aviation is to start with a large one.
With that said...Get your private and fly about another 100 hours after that...then see if you still want to buy an airplane and consider a career. There are a million people floatin around airports across the country who thought that because aviation is a great hobby..."I might as well get paid doing somthing I love"...Trust me and everybody else...thats not the case. There are crew rooms full of guys who hate their job but love flying. Flying for a career is alot different than flying for fun. Before you buy an airplane and all that, you got to make sure its what you want and that you can hack it. As an instructor, I saw a load of "pilots" who couldn't hack it (not my students of course
) and as a jet driver, I've seen a whole bunch more that this ain't the career for them. Get your CFI and that'll teach you more than any book or message board.