I'm writing to those who are distraught about not getting a job in their first year on the market. Academia is a business. However, it is also an intrusive beast that thinks it's superior to all who apply to the join the cushy ranks of the tenured. Negotiate with it from a position of power by having work experience that it needs. Those who do not get jobs right away should be encouraged, and even forcibly pushed, into careers in business.
Money is important.
Having a job gives you the means to take a vacation. Meanwhile, if you had a job, you would have no loans, or at least fewer or smaller loans. A little about my personal experience might help to shed some light on the subject. Me neither, but the firm was willing to train me in those skills in exchange for my foreign-language skills. The job was low paying for the high-tech sector, but it paid a lot more than many new Ph.D.'s earn in their jobs, and the pay was light years from the T.A. salaries I've seen.