StopStart,
Your frustration and slight bitterness does not warrant a dig at me.
For what it's worth, the choice of PA precludes further 'career progression' as far as I'm concerned, despite my grammar Nazi tendencies! I wish you luck outside if that's your choice but, I guarantee, the same issues and people that p*ss you off right now all exist elsewhere. The short-term liberation of PVR'ing is very soon superseded by the dawning realisation that, as part of any corporation, it's very much the same everywhere. If you're very lucky, you'll realise that it's your own state of mind that makes you happy, not the appalling state of x,y or z, or the desire to be doing something 'better'.
LM