Their older children all became doctors, but their youngest son chose/followed a different (career) 'path'.
His friends all went to college, but he chose to 'follow' a different path. [=to do something different]
He believes the average consumer is being 'led down the garden path' by the promises in advertisements.
(..) Here we go. In the winter,that seat is close enough to the radiator to remain warm, and yet not so close as to cause perspiration in the summer, it's directly in the path of a cross-breeze created by opening windows there and there it faces the television at an angle that is neither direct, (..)2007 TvShow: The Big Bang Theory Title: Pilot Season: 1 Episode 1