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You had been working your old job doing all the hours under the sun having little time to explore your options or do anything to change that. Now you are free of that, your recent stuff is all you.
You worked to get your training funded, if I knew what I knew now about the vast difference in courses(I explained that to Mel with some even worse examples of it's implementation) then I'd have done something more but it worked out. The course from them and instant work offer did fit your circumstances, I don't think I could have convinced you to take the 4 days out for the training without that work offer being a factor.
Makes me very happy to have helped.
Also #toptip: listen to clockwise. He dragged my backside into becoming an instructor and he has helped my riding and my son's riding (and my instructing and all the rest).