Well you stuffed up.... if you had a real profession based on years of study, like, as you put it, Accountancy or Medicine, you would not have has the same problems of where to from here. You have, I assume, a degree which includes Journalism.... better than nothing, but how much, you will find out.... and why ths fascination in being a 'war correspondent'.

Bear in mind that it is not your youth which may be so much an impediment as your assumption that you have something of significant value to offer... it is not due to inequality or injustice.  

You may try for a job at EWN, most of their reporters and editors are 'interns' and it shows!