Really? So, in order I started with two supervisors: 1) Supervisor 1 left for maternity leave

2) Supervisor 2 sued the university and ended up leaving

3) Supervisor 1 returned, got me to re-write

4) Supervisor 1 went on maternity leave again

5) Supervisor 3 (head of dept) forced me to rewrite and completely change the focus

6) Supervisor 1 returns, says nothing about change of focus

7) Supervisor 3 leaves

8) Supervisor 1 asks me to rewrite to original way

9) Supervisor 4 comes in (super helpful, especially with the stats)

10) Supervisor 4 gets heart disease, takes early retirement

11) I finally say fuck it and put in the PhD

12) Supervisor 1 says I didn't read it all, see what the examiners say

13) Examiners very sceptical I wrote the whole thing, until the actual exam

14) I get major corrections, all of which were down to my refusal to follow APA style in my tables (because it's stupid).

15) I finally graduate, three years after getting my first private sector job.

So, yeah, PhD's can be bad for everyone ;)

Ok you win. My hat off to you. Even if I include supervisor that quit on my previous PhD attempt (I worked in industry in between) and my current grantless supervisor who would have happily graduated me with a copy of his last student’s project with some numbers changes if I hadn’t put my foot down and insisted on my own project. And the fact that my school strongly discourages examiners unless the supervisor wants them.