Exactly. 33% isn't bad to be honest. When my advisor quit, I left my PhD without thinking twice, because I got a job at a much higher pay than my PhD stipend,

Exactly. 33% isn't bad to be honest. When my advisor quit, I left my PhD without thinking twice, because I got a job at a much higher pay than my PhD stipend, and leaving my PhD didn't present the kind of financial burden that it would have were I in a humanities field. Now I'd like to complete it again, but I'd want to do it part-time, and I have a much better idea of what I'd like to do. As engineers, we are pretty lucky to be in that position, even when things don't quite work out as planned, we still end up pretty well off. So there's not quite the same determination to make a particular course of action work.