Your chances are 100% that if you succeed and yes it has and can be done, that your total cost in terms of dollars will exceed by around 10 times what you would have spent if using a 'mentor'. Also the cost in total time spent in the effort to reach any given level of competancy will also be around ten times greater. The cost in frustration cannot be calculated and this of course will reduce the odds around one in ten that you stick it out before just moving on to something else.

John

Cold hard odds thats evident on a daily basis