<human>: Thank you in advance for any advice I get Reddit.  

Backstory:  I used to play piano when I was a boy and into my early teens.  I could read music (not complicated stuff but definitely the stuff in the type of music books you'd expect a person playing for a few years to read).  
The problem is that I quit when I hit high school.  I did not really like the piano because it was forced on me by my parents and like any typical teen, I rebelled against it.  Instead I wanted to do after-school sports, hang out with friends, etc, and my parents decided I was old enough by high school to make my own choice with regard to the piano.

Naturally, this has come to be the thing I regret most in my life.  When I think about how well I could play by now (I am in my early 20s), I shudder.

Reddit, I am determined to take lessons again someday but I am in grad school and cannot afford them until I have a real job.

Give me a shortened version of the text
<bot>: Stopped playing after three years, want to learn again, cannot afford lessons till first real job, have old busted keyboard, willing to learn scales on my own for a year if that's what it takes.