Starting out as a PT and still working the day job

Hey Folks,

Signed up to do a PT course ( like everyone else in the country ) in a few months. I will be doing it part-time so will be good to go (ie qualified) in Spring time. Anyway… I am currently in full-time employment and although its not exactly providing a massive sense of job satisfaction, it does offer security which I am planning on maintaining for maybe the first 6/12 months( possibly working from home two days and then reducing to three days a week) whilst I start up the new venture to see how it goes. If the PT work grows legs faster , I will jump on board with that.

So, with out turning it into a debate on my background or my motivation/drive ( lets presume the best for now) , I was just wondering if anyone has gone down the PT path in a similar fashion to me.
Any tips, pointers, tails, how you went about it etc ?
Anyone any info on any grants available ( which may be very different if one maintains full time employment)


Thanks in advance

PS to be clear, I don’t for a minute think that maintaining a succesful PT business is a piece of p11ss and that it will be easy to do whilst maintaining a full time job. I am aware it may be too much, and have a lot of respect for lads and ladies that have done it and made a success of it, so please don’t think I am being dismissive of the hard work and commitment involved. If it hought it was easy I wouldn’t be hear asking the questions 