Just thought I would weigh in to comment on the absolute positive atmosphere on the last couple of pages of this thread - its fantastic. I was just getting extremely extremely frustrated over the amount of keyboard warriors and naysayers in these forums who log in only to vent their frustrations about their careers during the bad times on people coming up in the better times (sometimes I think people in training post things on here to trim the competition by scaring them away!) . Congrats to you all and good luck to those who, like me, had to work in the real world for a decade (or two or three or four apparently) in order to be able to start chasing the dream now!