Old..... getting older.....
I'm 37 this year, so was 34 when I started my access course, but I had been looking into a career change for a while before then and had started a Human Biol AS at night school. It probably took two/three years of planning to get onto the access course, this did included having a baby along the way.
Back then it seemed so very daunting to be out of full-time work for a possible five years and I couldn't have imagined it. But I would have regretted it for the rest of my life if I hadn't done it.