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!! 
Not in the US. That's such a bland CV, thought something in latex would impress, didnt know they wanted an unformatted word document lmao; I know way more than what you described but lack in projects
What's the STAR format?
Programs are more likely to have difficulty parsing the resume if it's at all interesting. STAR was correctly described on other response. You could do a couple of simple projects that sound ound good on paper and hit keywords, like turn an old computer into a home server. That lets you mention server repair, installing Linux, partitioning, formating and encrypting drives, using ssh, manually setting up the network configuration and VPN. You could put Kali on a VM and try to hack your own wifi, with that you have virtualization, pentesting and network security. It also lets you use these projects as stories for when you answer the behavioral questions
Situation Task Action Result
Basically if they ask you a question, like "talk about a time you had conflict with a coworker and how did you resolve it?"
You would follow the STAR method to answer.
Situation - "Someone kept stealing my lunch from the fridge in the work room"
Task - "I had to find out who was the thief"
Action - "I bought $500 worth of IP cameras and installed them in every corner of the breakroom"
Result - "I got fired"
I agree with the other commenters on not using AI in your interviews, it's extremely obvious. People putting chatgpt in conversation mode and reading from the corner of their screen every time a question is asked.
The using AI for technical interviews is really a thing right now. Like 90% of the interviews seems like ppl are using things like chatgpt or parakeet. I really don't get why ppl are trusting it like that, like the answers are very clearly slop
Interviewed multiple people who all used it, just speaking random slop, I ended a few early since it felt like such a waste of time.
It's especially obvious when it's a technical role, recruiters love anding random garbage to them like "TCP/UDP experience" when that doesn't mean shit, yet somehow all these interviewees manage to weasel it into the conversation when it doesn't even apply to the question being asked.
I know the market is tough but most of these people are mass applying to thousands of jobs and cheating the interviews so they can "work" multiple positions for ~6 months before getting fired for not doing anything.
So far I haven't seen results of them getting hired, we've gotten rather paranoid about it. I guess if the entire internet slows down in 6-12 months, we'll know why. Maybe it would be good if AI prevents us from hiring ppl to fix the AI