Hiya,
Just joined up to TSR having found your OP.
I can empathise having found myself in a similar position, unable to remain on my chemistry degree due to a bad exam result and resit, I was allowed to carry on and graduate with a science studies degree, which has no honours, having amassed plenty of credits.
At the time (2000) it felt like the end of the world, and for sure it has been difficult to find a job which matches my skills. I started in a distribution centre for royal mail for 7 years which was manual labour basically, then through an agency I started a lab job which didn't seem to require much intellect and paid only 12k. Three years of that left us broke and so now I'm in the police, struggling with the debts of the past few years.
You see my husband who went to the same uni as me and did his honours year but failed it (we had massive family issues going on at the time) didn't find any work for about 5 years after applying for all sorts of jobs ATS, train driver, teaching, lab jobs, oil and gas etc then he started leaving his degree off his cv and got some warehouse jobs and has worked only part time in asda stocking shelves for the past 6 years.
Now we live and studied in Scotland, I really don't know how to get a graduate job here, even with now significant work experience in my field. As for my husband, well he is at his wits end.
Try all you can, work your backside off because as time wears on the opportunities fade and you give up.
Sorry to be so long winded in my answer, but I regret just letting it go and I'm sure my husband wishes his 5 years at uni with placement in Sweden for a year wasn't a total waste of time.
In the mean time the interest on the student loans continues to rise....
All the very best