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.
(..) There is pleasure in the forests without path There is enchantment in the solitary bank There is society, where nobody interferes There is music in the bellow of the sea Not it is that he/she doesn't love the man, but to the Nature the master more. Lord Byron. (..)2007 Into the Wild