Current Situation

Well...I've been out of school for a couple of weeks now (3 weeks) and I still haven't found a job and freelance work isn't working out for me so well. The only work I have received for freelance translation is this one brochure job on technical houses and it was because no one else felt bothered to do it...I got paid so that's good but it didn't amount to anything. I did get another offer from a guy that made Japanese textbooks. I gave him a suggestion on a google group page I'm on and he really liked it so he offered me this job but after giving him more sample sentences, he wasn't satisfied and wrote that he thought I was a professional when he saw my suggestion on the group page. I can't be mad however, it's partly my fault. I was so excited about the job offer I didn't take my time and proof read, I didn't think and I just sent it in half ass like thinking it was good enough. Every things just weighing down on me right now...I mean I have almost $10,000 dollars interest to pay on my loans and $100,000 in total (principal) that I borrowed to just finish school. Just looking at these numbers is making my head spin because I have no idea how I'm  going to pay for it all...I thought I could start by doing freelance work during the summer to pay down some of the interest but for most of the work they want professional translations and I just don't have the experience yet to say that I can handle it. I've applied to countless jobs and still no one's getting back to me...so I'm really at a loss right now. I mean, my dad says to take it one step at a time, but what step am I suppose to take when I have no opportunity to go on. Right now I feel like I've just wasted money because I still don't entirely understand the Japanese language and even though I have an idea about what I want to do, I have no experience and I feel like no one will give me a chance to gain the experience. I know I have to study more but I just don't have the money to continue schooling or go to a school focusing on translation. I feel like I'm in a pitch black room with only a match that has a bud of flame on the end. Groping through the dark with no way of turning on the light.