I never realized how stupid and useless I was until I read this thread. :P

Whatever you choose, I'll be over in two hours to clean your toilets, mow your lawn, and wash your car.

Drop it all and become an environmental conservationist, philosopher, or organic farmer.

Given the success of Witcher III, seems like a fine time to enter the sex motion capture industry.

My problem was that I graduated just a couple of months prior to the 2008 Financial Crisis, when the crisis came 90% of all entry-job seemingly disappeared and my job offers were quickly withdrawn.

Most of the jobs I applied to were in exporting-importing (international sales etc) and logistics.
The jobs I've actually gotten have been as a delivery driver, store clerk and similar, but they have all been on short/medium-term basis.

In Sweden most entry-jobs in business are reserved for university students, not for people who are actually unemployed. And you can only apply for part-time jobs here if you have some other form of activity, like being a student. So when I came across a great job in administration working 70% of full-time I simply could not apply for it.

I have looked abroad as well believe me, but most business entry-jobs internationally require a Masters, it has quickly become the minimum requirement today. Apart from that there's the issues of my degree being too old and not having the experience required. So 'yes' working abroad would be fantastic, but my chances are not higher than here in Sweden.

Just to confirm, you graduated around 28 years old? That would be a weakness applying almost anywhere, but not impossible to get over. Again, it's almost similar to me.

Well, let's get specific then. Something close to Logistics and International Sales would be Supply Chain and Procurement related processes in outsourced service centers. Transactional processing of Purchase Orders and such for the entry level I assume, but it would depend on your CV specifics. The IT experience you have despite limited is a plus because anyone willing to help automate tasks is welcome. Any Nordic language is usually in high demand and usually gets some premium on the salary. And Economy / Finance graduates are very common. You have this kind of jobs from Ireland to Turkey, but a lot more in countries like Poland and Romania (higher cost living / higher quality of life countries = less jobs in total).

Companies I have in mind would be like: Capgemini, Accenture, IBM, etc... etc... etc... It's not a great job, because it's almost like the burger flipping equivalent of today. But it's true that if you want to, have enough skills (same you'd need to run a business on your own pretty much - organization, communication, management) you can climb fast.

I don't know, to me it looks like the kind of jobs you've been looking for are too high level - Master level is far from common for majority of business roles in the normal world outside of very rich countries like yours I guess. You need to lower your aim and IMO would be hitting the target easier. If you do want to go higher immediately then yeah, you'd probably have to risk a further specialization in something, but the price there is, it's not "immediately" anyway is it?

I mean, I don't want to sound too snarky here, but at least you're not a theology or sociology graduate without IT skills... that would be a challenge that would probably require immigration outside of the EU. So, how does this kind of stuff sound? Had you thought about it? Gdansk is even quite close to Sweden for example...