OPT/MAX, up late from the time on your post.
If you have worked in aviation already as a plank driver then you know what awaits. If not then be warned that it is a hard, slow and long journey.
Once you finish if you need work. Look for that now as well. Get your foot in the door and start doing loading and other 'duties' before you finish.
You have to sell yourself (not your soul as most will tell you) to be a better prospect than the other newby pilots.
I believe that the schools are sausage factories. They churn out a lot of pilots and have no care what happens to them afterwards. That's fine, but they don't tell the new student enough about what the real world is like.
So when you are looking for your first job, before you have your licence, see what the real world has to offer.
Good luck, and if it really is the dream, then go for it with both eyes open.