I know that posting a quote and nothing else is rather cheap, but it's all I can manage at the moment.

" . . . if they suck you into the System, extricating yourself may be damned near impossible. Letting your life be set to other people's scheduals may satisfy their needs, but you'll be trading bits and pieces of your own life to placate others who do not, in actuality, care much about you or your problems or desires or potentialities. They mumble "I know how tough it is for you" or "I understand" but when it comes right down to it, it is their production schedual or swing shift time or actuarial table that mesmerizes them. . . . The lesson here is one that will get you clobbered if you follow it. Run your life at your own pace, not that of the Man."
- Harlan Ellison