I am 45 and have a fairly comfortable job in the charity sector. But I can't see myself doing this til I'm 65. I'd like to retrain as an acupuncturist before I get too old. The thing is the course costs about £25k - I'd have to either take redundancy or work 3 days a week part time (this is an option luckily) and so it would involve hard work (though I love studying) financial hardship ( I could do it if I rented out the spare room) and then I could either take redundancy or continue to work freelance in charity while building up a practice. I also have the option to work from home (another spare room - and a large mortgage!!). Would it be worth it? Is the market saturated? - I'm in London. Any acupuncturists out there who can tell me if this sounds like a good idea? I do need to be able to earn money as an acupuncturist after qualifying - I could just about survive working 3 days a week in my other job and working 2 days a week in acupuncture but eventually I'd want to do it full time.
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