whizzball1 said
Didn't you tell us your last name? Or maybe what you told us is your Middle name. Why would you tell us the name rather than the last? My mum always tells me never to reveal my middle name. Last is perfectly fine.I want my Doctorate because 1. The main requirement is to add new knowledge to the pool of knowledge on the subject, which is awesome, and 2. In most universities you have to have a Doctorate to be a professor.
Maybe it's because you have a common word as your last name. My middle name is more common than my last. I'm David Richards B******** III. Honestly, if you really wanted to find me, it would be far from impossible. But I really don't care that much, since I'm never really by myself anyway. But if your name was anything else, revealing your last and not your middle would be the stupidest thing possible, but you're a special case.
A doctorate really wouldn't help me out that much, other than me being able to claim the title.