hmm, i'll bite!
my parents are both HS teachers (both graduated college and then did masters while teaching). my brother is a software engineer (no grad school). sadly, he's making more money just a few years out of college than i will make for a long time. aside from one MD/PhD cousin, there is really no connection to medicine or academia anywhere else in my family. though most of my family has no idea what i'm getting into, they're very supportive. 🙂