Spitfire,
You and others are more brave than me - good luck to all of you! I'm in a very similar position, but decided work part-time towards the ATPL while still keeping my current job to pay the bills. A little over a month into the distance-learning, I'm sitting at work, bored out of my mind, wishing I had the finances to just quit the job and get the ATPL sorted asap!
It's a long road, but we'll all make it in the end, as long as it's what we want to do.
FFF
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