1 before you do another thing or start building your hopes up...A CLASS ONE MEDICAL!!!
2 get ALL the finances in place incuding a plan for breadline earings during your early instructing years
3 an IMC, it will give you practical experience which will help with your ATPL's and come in handy later
4 If you can, do a residential ATPL course...working with others helps LOADS
5 Keep some hours going while doing your ATPLs
6 Go to the States and do some hours it's cheap and forget the negatives about overseas flying you hear on this site. get some intruction along the way to check you bad habits ...maybe a multi or even an FAA IR. Don't jusy spend hours in the air punching holes in the sky and building bad habits!
7 CPL
8 FiC
9 Multi and IR (the more time you spend flying before this the better!
10 Dont ever magine what you could have done with the cash and ignore the fact that your mates earn 5 times what you do....but hey thats flying for you!
good luck!!