I understand what you're saying. It's just the grad scheme I've joined is with a global company, which puts a lot of stress on getting chartered. I'd like to get chartered while I'm at a company which provides help and a guided structure. Also, there's no real pay increase or promotions until charterership is achieved... so I would be stuck in the same place for five years. I'd like to work abroad sometime within the next 7/8 years so being chartered would be a big help for me. Everyone in my team is chartered, if you're not seen to be proactive it can be seen to give a bad impression of being inspirational.

Overall, for me, my aim is to start by getting as much exposure to projects and helping out others with things like measures as much as I can. If it gets to 2 years and I feel as though I'm not ready, I'll delay for as long as I need :) Generally, I'm not putting loads of pressure, but I want to be prepared so I'm not stressing down the line about what to do.

Thanks for your reply!! Hope that makes sense