UK, get your instructor ratings. Tons of places hiring and you can get the flight time you need quickly. Also don't count on not having a degree. I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but I'll put it like this: I have a friend who had 14 internal letters of rec at United, went to 3 job fairs, and about 5,000 hours. A few weeks after he got his degree he got the email for the psych test.