Ranting choice: Obligations and growing up

So from the title you probably think this will be a pointless moany post ?

Wrong good ladies,sirs and cyborgs. We had tutorials this week, so my mind was exploded in another lecture. In our New media theory lecture our lecturer introduced us to a theory from a book called Willing Slaves: How the Overwork Culture is Ruling Our Lives. According to our lecturer the book presented one major idea. This was the idea that today's goals for most people in the modern world is simple:

Go through education (school, possibly further education like college or university) --->Get a good job -->Get a house--> Pay house off--> Get house paid off--> Get moved to a nursing home and have house and everything sold off to pay for it because your to old to be alone. = A willing slave to a modern day system.  This little sum scares me more then a zombie with a rocket launcher

It maybe be my age but I barely think two months ahead, ask me now I have no idea what I'll be doing in ten years let alone ten days. Has my life been summed up for me before I even enter the real real world ?

No of course not. It's simple it's a text book theory which doesn't factor in all life experience. Look at people like the Hilton sisters they don't have jobs (probably not a good thing) who totally defy the theory, what about the disabled who are unable to work ? They don't need this theory to life their lives in a good way. Clearly this system isn't mandatory, you could skip a step like not a good education like Duncan Bannatyne but still has a decent job. What about the children of millionaires who receive great education and don't work ?

Enough rhetorical questions. This theory misses out the human element like love and social/recreational lives and doing journalism opens a wide array of choices for me, the constricted job and getting a house mentality is shot if I go freelance and manage to make a living out of traveling around the world. If I'm honest the reason I'm breaking this down like a dance move is I hate to think what's waiting for me after I graduate is 9-5 desk job in which I wear stiff suit and a build a mentality the outside world is below me.

Overall I see this theory as being a simple framework in which you build upon and add,subtract elements to match your experiences. This could be positively like getting a job but never needing a permanent home or not getting a good education or job and just living off the state.