IAmA language student, finishing my MA with no job opportunities in my field.

I'm a student (female) from Eastern Europe, currently living in France and finishing my MA in Italian and French language and literature. I would like to work as a translator later. The only problem is I really don't want to go back to my home country. Not yet. There wouldn't be a problem in finding a job if I were to go back to my country. But the situation in my country is awful. Then again, I can't find a proper job in translation abroad, because I'm not a native speaker and my native language is not really in demand. I'm kinda desperate. I know I'm skilled and I like translation, whenever I get the job, I enjoy doing it. I tried odesk and sites like that and nobody hired me. While I was studying in my home country, I was working as a part time simultaneous translator and I was really good at it. I have enough concentration and I can think and express myself fast enough. But nobody wants to hire a non native speaker. So, I'm kinda in a crisis of a sort. I'm beginning to think that I should have studied something else and that I'm just gonna end up like a failure, although me and my parents invested a lot in my education. I think I'm gonna end up disappointing everybody, especially myself. AmA