I'm not a commercial pilot or even an airline pilot, so I have a little different perspective than those guys.

See your education through, hopefully pick up a decent paying desk job, so you can afford flight lessons.

Go to the FBO with the old but hopefully well maintained Cessnas and Pipers.

Avoid the FBOs with the marble floors that cater to the Citations and Gulfstreams of the world.

Get your 1st Class Medical and get your Private over the course of 5-6 months or so.

After you have earned your Private, you should have a much better idea of whether or not you want to do this for a living or just for pleasure.... and of course if you want to do it for a living, time to pony up the money to get your Instrument Rating down.