If your college years accidentally turned out to be a degree in unemployment, and you completely failed to pick up any skills with real value on the job market, the kind someone is willing to pay for by wiring money into your account every month, then things are looking pretty bleak.
For example, if for some reason you decided to study library science and you don't exactly see a flood of job offers for librarians, it would be a good idea to think about an alternative path.
If you're short on skills and don't know what to learn, foreign languages are a good option.
Most of the important stuff on the internet happens in English. It's also the main language of international business communication.
The hotel guy
When I was in Vietnam, on Phu Quoc island, there was a guy from Switzerland working at the hotel who, by birth, spoke German and French. He learned English and Italian, and once he got there he met a girl and started picking up Vietnamese.
His job was to walk up to hotel guests during breakfast and chat with them, recommending various activities and collecting feedback on their stay so it would be as good as possible.
Knowing at least two foreign languages can be your bargaining chip when you're looking for a job. A company may be willing to invest in your technical training in exchange for your ability to talk to customers in their native language. That's how support companies work, the ones businesses outsource their tech support to. You'll pick up the technical stuff quickly on the job.
Travel and business
When I moved to Tenerife, I noticed that people wanted to chat with me, and knowing Spanish would have come in really handy. Getting to know locals adds a lot of value when you travel the world. In the Alps it's much easier to get by in German and Italian than in English.
I don't even have to mention that doing business abroad goes better when you speak at least a little of their native language. It doesn't have to be perfect. They'll definitely appreciate it.
Learning a language
Languages come more naturally to some people than to others, but better not look for excuses like I just don't have a knack for languages or I'm too old to learn.
Learning a language means drilling vocabulary over and over, studying grammar and talking with a tutor (I can recommend it). There are also loads of apps to help with the process. Learning vocabulary literally takes a dozen or so minutes a day, but consistency is key.
And if you get really good at it, nothing stops you from developing your own teaching methods and starting to teach others, or even building a YouTube channel, a learning app or a language business on top of it.
The job market
It's not the system's fault that you can't find a job. There may simply be no demand for your skills, or you haven't tailored them to what the market needs.
For example, mathematicians, even though the degree itself doesn't sound very appealing, will probably do well in data science, building predictive models and AI models, in statistics, in finance and banking, and probably even in trading, because as a rule they're very smart basement dwellers. And with that approach, the world is just waiting for them.
Fun fact: at the time of writing, I found 17 job offers for the search term librarian. Of course, that's probably not the only job you can do with this degree. At the University of Silesia in Katowice alone, 14 students graduated in this major in 2022, and 19 the year before. The number of graduates has been falling since 2014, when there were as many as 54. And at least 6 universities offer this major.
That's why I always encourage you to consider whether it would be better to spend those 5 years teaching yourself specific skills rather than spending that time on higher education.