What should I do with my life?

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I graduate from a good college with good grades four months ago and have accomplished nothing more than sending hordes of resumes out. I still don't know what I really truely want to do and I'm looking for a little insight. These are all my ideas. 1) Graduate School for history. Pros: I love the subject. Cons: I don't want to spend the next 7 years getting my PhD to get a low paying job as a professor and spend the rest of my life getting out of the debt incurred to be so educated. I also don't want to spend my entire childbearing years so broke I wont want to spend money on a family. 2) Culinary School. I've considered this before and turned it down in favor of regular college. Pro: I love to cook and it would exercise creativity. Con: I can teach myself anything out of a cookbook. The chances of being wildly successful are small. The career has terrible hours and working conditions. I wouldn't want a family I couldn't see and at some point I physically wouldn't be able to work anymore. I'm also pretty accident prone so I'd probably end up in the hospital regularly. 3)The Real World. I've pretty much failed at this the last 4 months. I know it's not my fault as 52% of people between the ages of 18 -25 are unemployed. The only interviews I've gotten are secretarial, data entry or office assistant positions. I'd hate doing this, even for a few years. Pros: I'd be making money and there's no where to go but up. Cons: I'll hate it and be bored. I've also never seen myself as climbing the corporate ladder. And I'm bad at kissing up to my superiors and dealing with incompetence. I also hate dress pants. I'm also getting desperate and am going to have to apply to retail and food service jobs to start making my student loan payments. 4) This is my current favorite idea Graduate School for Library Science. Pros: Shorter and cheaper program. I love books and especially old books and records. The field is also going to open up in the next few years as the baby boomers retire and will be replaced by a tech savvy younger generation. There are great schools in the area I want to stay in. Cons: Spending more money on school, depending on the direction of the economy and the growth of the government jobs could be easier or harder to get. My mom who I don't have a good relationship with, suggested I become a librarian years ago. While she generally knows nothing about me, my personality and academic interests she might be right on this one.