This is a "Longshot", but works for most who want to establish "experience" in a newly desired field of work.

You went to the academy so you are not entirely ignorant of the profession. Try a catering business specializing in ' whatever' ...baking and pastry etc. Then describe your company as hiring only "certified" culinary artists, or specialists, and of course, you' ll have to hire yourself in order to take money out of your company. Name your company a name other than your own...i.e. "Slim Pastries LLC" as an example, instead of your own personal name..

Get business customers from church leads (i.e. those who know who is getting married and need a cake), wedding consulting firms, any company dealing with people who would also need pastries. Do what you were taught. Put your card up at the academy, and other places, Send out flyers. After you get a few months of business, use clients as references...but don' t forget, when your company is doing pastries for various clients  present yourself humbly as a representative of your company, its key employee, rather than  its "owner". After you leave your company, your company will survive as the corporation or proprietorship you started it as, but will simply be dormant for the time being. You don' t want to compete or have a conflict of interest with your new employer.

A proprietorship will be free to organize, a corporation about $100 through the state. I know $100 is probably hard to come up with when unemployed, but I' d go the corporation route. Have cards made with your name and position on it... i.e Jane Smith, Pastry and Bakegoods Design, or Catering Specialist, etc. Never use titles like President, Owner, or executive in nature. Use typical titles given to certified specialist employees, those employees whose skills are valued by management.

Just a thought, but I' ve done it successfully myself. You be the judge.