CAT3C,
Quality post.
I'm soon to embark on quitting work and starting training, and am presently going through the rollercoaster of emotions of pride, excitement, pensiveness and sweaty-palmed fear, depending upon which aspects of past events and those yet to come I am thinking of.
Reading your post was a big reminder of what I have to work towards and look forward to.
Well done to you for your dogged determination and hard work, and thanks for sharing.
Just goes to show what can be achieved.
Best of luck to you and yours.