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.
(..) It is not only flowers but also vegetables and fruit. They have all the bees. There you have talked about our entire Cito button. You take all the green path, it dies the entire animal kingdom, and that affects the ... The human race. There is no pollination. It may thus all piece. (..)2007 Bee Movie