Unemployment is destroying my mental health

I have been depressed for these past few days, but today I truly feel like shit and decided to post here.

I live in Portugal, I am 23yo and I have a masters degree in psychology. Since january, I have been sending my CV left and right, trying to land myself a mandatory internship to become a *real* psychologist. So far, I have sent it to exactly 151 places and I managed to go on 6 interviews. Unfortunately, I didn’t get any of the internship positions. 

I’ve asked for feedback in every interview. Today one of the interviewers finally replied and said that, because I have no experience working with children, I can’t work at that school. They told me I should go to a school and volunteer with kids. Thing is: I had highlighted heavily that I worked for 2 years planning and making birthday parties to kids. So, no, it’s definitely not a clinical setting, but I do have experience with the demographic, and giving that it’s an internship and that I am supposed to learn and have supervision, I find it odd the interviewer would respond that given that it’s not true.

Since june, when I finished an online course that I made some money with, I realised that I can’t keep on being unemployed. So I began to put more effort applying to positions outside of my field of study. In Portugal, the only prospects that a psychology degree gives you is either becoming a psychologist or being in HR. I have been applying to all of the junior HR positions that I come across, and so far I have only landed an online interview and heard nothing back. 

Also, what really made me want to vent here was that today I went to an interview for a receptionist position at a well-known car company. Keep in mind, I applied through an outsourcing company. I arrived 15 minutes earlier and I was met by a young woman, who I think might be the new receptionist, and she tells me that I can seat myself while I wait for HR to come get me for the interview. Five minutes before, the HR from the outsourcing company calls me and says there has been an emergency and that we have to reschedule. I respond that we can do it tomorrow, and HR tells me they are going to confirm with the client and would call me shortly. Obviously, I didn’t get that call. I wasted my time and I wasted my money on an uber for the interview site for it to get cancelled last minute. And the HR prick couldn’t even get to the reception to apologise and ask for a reschedule which is what pisses me off the most here.

I feel betrayed, frustrated and utterly stupid. I spent five years in university, I worked hard to get my degrees. I cancelled plans with family and friends, took my time and a toll on my mental health to study, to volunteer, to work, only for my efforts to mean nothing in the end. I have been waiting for 8 months to get my internship, but a lot of people in the same situation as me have been there for a year or two… 

I can’t say this out loud because it is not the correct thing, but if I went back in time I would probably have picked some other degree. Yes, I want to help people with their mental health struggles and become a psychologist still. I just wished the ordem dos psicólogos did something to help their future and current members thrive. I wished the job market didn’t suck right now, and that it would only take me three interviews to land a stable job, that’s all.