To have a Masters degree and feel completely unqualified to work

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The MA of one of my best friends is in the Humanities (in particular History). He works in the financial sector because I think he figured, after a period of unemployment, that "historian" isn't a role he's likely to walk in to.

This is no criticism of the Humanities and I also don't subscribe to those views that they are easy subjects as opposed to the sciences. I myself studied Mathematics and how many people do you meet who tell you that their job is a mathematician?

However, you have to dissociate your degree from your career. I hate Applied Maths and only really wanted to do Pure Maths. Even at 18, though, I knew that I'd probably end up working as an actuary. Now, I barely do any maths at all. And I don't earn anywhere near as much as an actuary. Life deals us some strange blows.

Do what you want, not what your education says you can do. Do you think Obama went to a President School as a teenager? Get laid for a start.

We all know people like you. And you are many. Jobs are not just creating themselves out there and a degree really only impresses people during the interview process. Not to knock your education, major props for being educated. (I hope the loans aren't too painful.) But most people get a job because they know someone who knows someone who has a connection with some company in a somewhat related field to what you really want to do. Find that door, or make it yourself. Good Luck!

labor market sucks
it doesn't work properly..
this is a typical issue of that incompatibility between supply and demand..

trust yourself and try to do something within what you already have

Thank you! I'm still trying. It's just to money thing that's scary. Rent will have to get paid somehow :(

Coming out of university with an Arts degree looks exactly as impressive to a prospective employer as does a certificate of membership of the Silly Buggers Society.