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Straight into kara. You need maybe....400 dps minimum to not get kicked out of a PUG these days and if the raid as a whole is led by someone who actualy knows how to get by the skippable trash and can summon Nightbane you'll be done in under two hours, have over 20 badges and at least two epics rotted to you.
Don't bother grinding honor, you don't have time or money.
Do SSO dailies for cash. Spend your first 1k on the flying mount training.
Run heroic (or normal if you're not honored with Sha'tar yet) Tempest Keep instances between Kara resets. If you can do over 800 dps consistently, run ZA for better epics.
You can kit out a character pretty well in one week doing it that way.