How old are you, Langeveldt? If you're still at school, then that's a good opportunity to use your weekends to work towards a PPL. It will take you about a year if you fly every weekend - but depending just how young you are, you might have to wait (you have to be 17 before you can get the PPL, and 16 before you can fly solo).
Before you do that, though, you should make sure you can get a Class 1 medical - because if you can't, then there's no point wasting your money on the flying.
After the PPL, you will need to do some hour-building (which is also ideal weekend stuff if you're still at school or university), and do the ATPL written exams. You can do the written exams before the hour-building if you like, but I'd advise against doing them while you're still studying - I think it would be far too difficult. However, there's nothing to stop you doing a distance-learning course for the exams whilst working full time. That's exactly what I did. It took about a year, it's bl00dy difficult, and you won't have a social life at all for that year... but it is possible.
After that, you need to do a CPL and an IR. I would suggest that both of these would be better done full-time. The CPL can probably be done by taking 3 weeks' holiday from work, and going to the US where the weather is better, hence giving you a better chance of completing the course in 3 weeks. Again, this is exactly what I did. The IR, though, is probably too long to be able to get time off work for, unless you have a very understanding boss, and might require you to quit your job.
Hope that's given you some good pointers. And as for "schoolboy alert", we don't have any problem with schoolboys on this forum. We only have problems with schoolboys who pretend to be airline pilots but who don't have the mental capacity to string a sentence together or press the "Search" button..... stay out of that category, and you'll fit in fine!
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