I am of the current understanding that we are always in a type of hamster wheel, no matter the decisions we make. I know people who live largely self-sufficiently in the middle of nowhere, and whole their life is different to mine, they are just on a different color wheel, running through different tasks to me.
Tgat might be depressing or, it could be something that we have to accept. Life is a series of processes, but I think of we choose to improve our own processes in ways we value, we are going to have a better life experience than those who choose to be passive victims of circumstance.