Hey all, I desperately need a job, preferably in a helpdesk position, eventually going into sysadmin or devops. Any tips on landing a job (at this point any job)?
I do not have Linkedin, I hate that platform but I dont know if I should make an account on it. I dont have GitHub cause fuck microsoft. I have my own website, but dont really have projects to show off other than years of selfhosting services, as I'm not a programmer, though I know scripting e.g. bash and such. At most what I have to show is a month of internship in a company's IT department. I have a nicely formatted LaTeX CV with my custom domain email and website linked. The website is handcrafted html, not tailwindcss or whatever else bloated garbage.
I have no clue how to apply or where. I also need to lie cause all of them want years of experience, which I kinda do have, but not officially, so if anyone has tips for lying would be great. Thought of pretending to be a small bussines owner as others recommended this here by making a fake company digital footprint but I'm unsure how effective it is. It sucks to be qualified largely and yet ignored because of the college requirement.
I'm failing college right now and will drop out because of the shit circumstances i'm in (financially and itherwise) so I found that even if I'm hypothetically a fit for the job quite well because I dont have a degree they just dont answer, how can I unfuck myself out of this situation? Feels hopeless to just keep bleeding out money with no end and only getting worse. So any advice on getting a job (of any kind at this point) including how to lie my way into one or what tactics to use idk anything would be of great use.
Thank you!! 
I have a couple of friends that already work in tech so I could use them, just didnt think the lying part was that easy lol, also I'm how much it would work considering for half a year I was supposedly doing university (though I assume I can just omit that?). For my CV I use https://github.com/posquit0/Awesome-CV. I know they use "AI" to filter it, so I try to put in keywords and such already, idk if I should just use LLM slop in it directly at this point considering it's all this circlejerk of the stochastic parrot lol
It's just absurd when you see the requirements they list and it's usually like 80% proprietary software I have zero experience with and not like I can have in the first place in a selfhosted setting. For me language barrier is also an issue considering I'm in a foreign country than my own and I don't know the language at all, beginning to learn it now; so ugh
Thank you for the detailed reply!!
I imagine some places check harder than others but it was wild to me how easy it is to lie as well.
I feel you it seems like it's always getting harder to be what they're looking for.
Happy I could share some tips. Good luck ๐