By the time you finish all your coworkers and grad school friends also have one....I was the first in my family to have one but then my cousin got her masters in epidemiology along with a psych doctorate and my other cousin got his DO. Neither of my parents finished college so it should have been a big deal, but it wasn’t to me. My sister didn’t finish college either, but frankly she’s always been smarter than me. The degree doesn’t indicate much, it’s literally a piece of paper I’ve got in a file somewhere.

Plus with a PhD it’s like people think oh so you’re not a real doctor anyway or alternately that you know everything like google. It just causes a lot of confusion.

However I don’t want to discourage you from getting one if you want, it’s nice to have but I thinks there’s a lot of misperception of it.