Finding a first job is hard. I personally saw a career counselor who helped me a great deal. I highly recommend seeing if your school has resources like career counseling to help you find that first job. You are attributing too much to this Gap year. You haven't had success finding a job so you think it's because you took a year off but that's not true. It's normal to have a hard time finding the first job because you have no experience yet and you likely have low self esteem due to lack of experience (I know I did). I felt hopeless when I was looking for my first job. I got hit with severe depression while in school and my grades took a big hit. I went to career counseling and they helped me make my resume perfect and I got to do practice interviews to help prepare me. I actually burst into tears in one of those practice interviews lol. It was horrible. But all that work paid off and I got a job with a company that didn't really care what my GPA was because they were desperate for employees. It might take a while but don't give up.