I have a PhD in place-names & history and I have absolutely no idea how I managed that. I built & repaired buses till I was 32. The coachbuilder often comes out of me more than the historian, but I love using the DIY skills of the coachbuilder and the reading and analytical skills of the historian.
I’m loathe to reveal my PhD lest I’m expected to make clever statements, answer random questions, supply information such as dates, spell correctly, write perfect English.
Cos I spent years in a hole in the ground doing particle
physics research (and I’m not really that bright) so I’m buggered if that 4 years of extreme mega-toil doesn’t give me the word Dr front and centre.
This is it exactly! The person on traitors was talking about it as if it gave them special powers, rather than the absolute fear, which is pretty much everyone I know’s experience of it
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physics research (and I’m not really that bright) so I’m buggered if that 4 years of extreme mega-toil doesn’t give me the word Dr front and centre.
and without I’m too similar to Vicky Pollard.
Like imagine you had assassinated Nelson Mandela, but you'd made an incredibly difficult shot to do it.