I say if you can't find a job, go to a University (do they help with this in Italy like jobs at the University or other financial help?) or what about military service? Perhaps you can't get a job because of the town you live in so you need to find some $ somehow so you can move to a town with more jobs? I have heard that unemployment is high in Italy (even worse than the USA and many young people cannot find jobs here either). You are probably going to have to be flexible. Take anything (if you can find something) then save some money from it so that you will have some capital saved so that when you know what you want to do, you can fund the "dream".