15th February 2014, 02:11 PM
A number of years ago I received an email from the co-author (an office-based specialist) of a paper we'd written for a journal asking me where I'd got my doctorate from...errr...what doctorate???...they seemed quite upset when I pointed out that I'm a shovel-operative (injuries permitting)... says it all, really... you don't need all those fancy letters after your name to produce equally valid work, so Tool, don't let anyone fool you into thinking you're any the less for being a 'digger'