Changing careers at 16 years into a job, is it realistic? - what worked for you?

I want to move from barista to something with more stability. It has been a long 6 weeks. I have a little time and a small budget for training. How did you start?

Keep everything in writing and save the confirmation numbers. It saved me later.

Thanks for writing this out. I went through something close to it last year, and it got easier once I kept a simple log of every call and form.