No offence at all taken by me from jmac's post - I recognised the scenario
completely! After a viva, people in my department would typically give
the proudly bedoctored young astronomer about an hour or two's worth of
use of the title, and then get back to first name terms. Outside in the
real world is where I like to use it, and it impresses my colleagues in my
new non-academic job :)
Thanks for the congrats, Jon - Tom Baker as The Doctor is definitely a
role model for me!
Roger Wesson, MSci, PhD, FRAS :)
>
> Maybe I got the wrong end of the stick here, but I thought jmac was
> being positive here ? If not, then sorry, but ...
>
> I read it to mean that he should indeed be proud of his title,
> especially given the amount of work involved. I also read it to mean,
> however, that when in a large group of equally qualified (and probably
> equally proud of it) colleagues, the use of the title really doesn't
> have the same impact. Outside that group, it certainly does.
>
> Anyway, a somewhat belated congrats to Doctor Roger - and I think he
> will be known for some time (at least around here) as "Doctor", or "The
> Doctor" (thoughts of a brightly coloured scarf spring instantly to mind
> !). Whatever he is known as, such a qualification is indeed very much
> respected.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jon
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Andrew McPhee
> Sent: 21 October 2004 06:43
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: moonlighting
>
> And jmac should look forward to some serious razzing for making a post
> like
> this. It was un-necessary.
>
> Roger is proud of his achievement, and so he should be.
>
> Andrew McPhee
>
>
>
>
> At 10:34 PM 20/10/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>
>>I had to laugh when I read this. People work so hard completing a
> doctorate
>>degree that the use of the title means a lot. I worked in a laboratory
> where
>>many of the employees had doctorates and in some groups they all were
> at
>>that education level. The term "doctor" was only used in external
>>correspondence or activities. Within the facility, people just did
> their
>>jobs and titles didn't mean squat. New employees, especially those with
>>fresh doctorates, were in for some serious razzing if they wanted to be
>>called "doctor".
>>
>>/jmac
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