Times are hard.
If you don't have a validated ADI rating your chances of getting an ATCO post are virtually nil.
You may have some luck in getting an ATSA post, but the vast majority of non NATS airports are able to fill such vacancies by trawling internally or through applications which they have previously recieved.
To be honest you are competing with a large number of people who are in a much better position than you and you face very tough competition.
You, as you say your self "are a little lost", because prior to taking on the NATS training, it didn't occur to you that you would be in the position you are now in and like many others, you didn't make contingency arrangements.
I wish you the best of luck, but there's a part of me that says that you make your own luck in this life and your position is indicitave of attitudes which prevail at this time.
It's now up to you to put in the hard work and prove yourself.