My relatives take a very...not dim, but instrumentalized, view of education. My grandfather said to me, when I mentioned that I was arms-deep in applications, that I'd already gone to school, why did I want to go back? They think I should have tried to get a corporate-type job somewhere.

ETA: And they seem to think I'm a bit weird for being single and not desperate to be in a relationship. They thought the same about my sister when she was single, too. This is all partly geographic in nature--my extended family are from the Midwest, while my nuclear family are from the East Coast, and our attitudes about a lot of things cleave along those lines.