To give some context here it should also be said that many 18 year olds don't even remotely have a fixed vision of what that "something else" will be. In German

To give some context here it should also be said that many 18 year olds don't even remotely have a fixed vision of what that "something else" will be. In Germany there are multiple programms in schools for students around the time the decision for university/ learning a trade/ ... etc. comes to explicitly prepare people to find that "something" for themselves.