I'm 28, I'm a grad - I've always wanted to work in the cultural field but my parents didn't let me chose back then. But that's another story - during my BA, I started working ridiculously low paid student jobs during the weekend at museums, so I could start knowing people in that sector and build a CV. After my BA, I took a part time job as a basic secretary, for which I was way overqualified, but when the executive assistant left, they gave me her job. Small company but good experience, also in leading projects. Not amazing but still something. I did my MA, and my previous student job experiences in museums allowed me to get a paid internship in another country to work for a very famous international orgaanisation for culture (PM me if you want details). I also did my master thesis in a related topic, linking both culture and political science, and got the best grade award during graduation. I started looking for a job. Culture is hard, but I was qualified to be a quite good executive assistant now and I easily got a job in a big and well paying company, position that I left when I got my actual one: I'm the event manager in a big museum in my city. And it's one related to my passion since I am mostly into litterature (I'm a published author). To answer you, I feel that you are maybe in a situation of depression, or that something more is going on than just not finding a job. Are you okay ? I really hope so. Why not trying to find a job in your government, even a smaller one so you can better grasp later opportunities ? In my country, police officers are recruited on a contest, almost every diploma is fine to try to make it past the selection. High school teacher is also another MA you can do , in my country, after your main one, regardless which one it was. How is it at your place ? Sorry for bad English, I'm not a native speaker.