Flyvirgin, tread with caution my friend.
I am one of those 1500+ people who where gainfully employed until recently and trust me there are few to no jobs out there for the likes of us let alone someone with a new shinny blue book. It’s healthy to have ambition and dreams, but for the newly qualified and for people with a green book but not a command, at the moment and for some time to come, that’s all they will be.
If I were starting out right now, I wouldn’t go past the exams stage as spending anything more on training (until this whole picture becomes clearer) may be financial suicide.