Title - The HR person at work said we would start looking at things later in the year, since the skilled worker visa could only be applied for 3 months before my current (Graduate) visa ends.
I took her at her word cause she's HR and this was back when I was newer at the company but I've just spent some time looking at the skilled worker visa .gov page tonight and I didn't see any mention of restrictions on when to apply, only that the CoS should be issued within 3 months of me applying for the visa, and that was on the switching skilled worker jobs page, not switching into the skilled worker visa page.
It was always either the nozzle was too close or too high no matter how much tweaking I did. I followed 3D Printscape's tutorials. I'd rather just go back to manually levelling the bed myself, my prints were all generally fine