What are the benefits of having a PhD

You got a nice gown? Most of the PhD gowns I've seen are minging clown pants things in orange and purple, I had hoped that the hat would make up for it, but apparently not.

It was different and less people had it on so therefore in the tiny helicopter parent mind it must therefore be nice and better in every way.

The hat is seriously over-rated. Although I did manage to spark of an argument between a helicopter parent and her precious little darling whilst I was posing for photos with my parents at graduation. The mother didn't seem to get that a PhD was a higher degree and so her little cherub couldn't have done it straight out of university and got the nice gown and floppy hat. It was the highlight of the day.

The main reason I'm doing a PhD is for the opportunity to wear a silly tudor style hat in public, everything else is a bonus.

Well, it really depends on your subject, what you plan to do afterwards, and what you consider "beneficial".

Subject wise I thought all lecturers at uni need a PhD.

Out of interest, what's a helicopter parent?

An overprotective parent who continues to "hover" about his/her adult offspring.

someone needs to write a PHD guide for all PHDs maybe get all the smartest people in the world to add stuff in.

I mean all PHDs do different things, for example a PHD in nursing is very different to one in Chemistry lol.