Having a job, no matter how meaningless or thankless, is better than not having one. It would be harder to explain the giant gap in your employment had you not taken the job than to explain that you were doing your best to work towards your goal and that includes a few steps that are not always applicable to your field. I'd rather have someone who worked four part time jobs than someone who was out of work 6 months looking for one job any day.
The person working four jobs is hungry for the opportunity while the one who was out of work seems picky.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.