IndigoJo:
Anyway how long did you train to be a midwife? I thought it was a degree, much like nursing nowadays, so it doesn’t just “come along”, you’ve got to make a commitment to it, while even a class 1 licence can represent only two weeks of training and £2-3K.
Hi IndigoJo, I did 3 years full time to train/qualify in Midwifery. I didn’t mean anything ‘bad’ by saying ‘Midwifery came along’ (ie did not mean to say it is something you put no effort in), it was just a short way to say I got into it not quite knowing how…well it is true…one day I was reading a magazine about going into education after having children, the next entertaining being a nurse in intensive care of the newborn and the next I was on a Midwifery course and here I am today.
It all happened as I am a single parent since my son was 5 months old…I wanted to work and provide a good life for him but I could ‘not’ visualise myself being a continental truck driver with him as a baby in the cab 
also I knew that the wages in trucking would not be as good.
Of course I studied a lot and it was hard financially being a single parent, my son was only 3 when I started my Midwifery, back then the government did not give any help with childcare where I was living, also you have to study/work all the time so it is not a walk in the park. Yes you commit to it if not you don’t qualify, simple as, but my son kept me going and wanting to give him a good example and a better life. I did not find the study or the training very hard, but the long hours with a young child yes, especially being on my own.
I have had a rough life from being homeless as a teenager climbing all the way back up (driving jobs for a few years) etc etc.
Yes I have worked hard but I think I am not special, some people have done a lot more than I have.
I digress now, so better cut it here as going off topic 