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Maybe your colleague's family know the great feeling that comes from completing a body of work like that?
Maybe they see him as someone who hasn't extended or tested himself fully yet and know the satisfaction he will get from it.
Maybe they're a bunch of superficial jerks who are embarrassed of his super basic prefix.
Hard to tell, especially since I don't know them, but families can be a good source of both aggravation and truth when it comes to their members.
One thing is for sure... not everyone has the goal of a better job, promotion, etc when going to uni for a higher degree. Its a personal thing.
A minor quibble, since I love a quibble, is that a PhD and a doctorate, in Australia at least, are two different things.
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