I think the point is more that you are put on this path without really thinking about it, and it then you are locked into it. I can sympathize with at least the

I think the point is more that you are put on this path without really thinking about it, and it then you are locked into it. I can sympathize with at least the education and job part of it. I did all that and eventually got laid off anyway and figured I had fallen off some path or other, and then looked back and realized the path was never really all that proscribed.