This is a post I put up a couple of months ago, I hope it helps
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...nking+of+doing
I am starting FI course on 2nd Nov and the company I am going with are going to use me once I have completed course, but I go into it with eyes open and we'll see what actually happens.
Good luck, back of a fag packet to FI £70k plus loss of income, thats with about 35 hours scrounged/free/freeish/cost shared