I've done the same, modular to fATPL, no money for a SSTR.
Still, even if I would have a spare 30,000 under my pillow, I'd rather do something useful with it and find an employer who pays my TR or at least bonds me.
No desire to pay for one, really.
See it that way:
You can comfortably live off that money for an entire year if your standards are not too high, so why not wait another year and see if you find a better job than at RyanScare & Friends?