My one year of writing up was the hardest for me. I had an interesting job and was earning money that compared to my student grant was ridiculous. It was really

My one year of writing up was the hardest for me. I had an interesting job and was earning money that compared to my student grant was ridiculous. It was really hard to force myself to finish something that I quickly realised was not going to influence my career in any way. Though I was pretty much hired on the basis that I would have a PhD and the hirer (who had a PhD) took great pleasure in filling the company full of PhDs purely to annoy the CEO who had dropped out of his PhD...