Thanks maimie, support welcome! Though as above, I'm not actually going anywhere at the moment..
I'm not so sure I have the ability to do anything I want, that I once believed I could! I'm not fishing for compliments, there would be no point, theres always an arsey email from my boss or a p1ssing phone call to bring me back to earth. Never mind the fact that I'm struggling to find a job in Edinburgh of all places, nothing more than speaking English as a first language should have me set for life there.
Unfortunately the University option is not worth it until I'm 25, thats the minimum age I can apply as a mature student to have my tuition fees paid and apply for a regular student loan to help me out. Applying now would require both my parents and myself to be means tested. In that scenario I'm only eligible for the minimum loan and not entitled to have my tuition fees paid for me, as I was very lazy in dealing with the mechanics of paying fees when I studied in Brighton, my student loan repayments for that period are calculated differently because I never went about applying the right way.
I could pay for it all myself but seen as I'm 24 it would be mad to hurry things along, there is no need for me to be holding a Product Design Degree and there probably never will be. I have no interest in spending 6 months having to explain to a team of failures how Pre-Modern Conceptionalism indirectly affected the greatest machine ever built by man, the shopping trolley! :017: And keep a straight face. Not yet anyway.