Ideals largely vaporize when you have bills to pay and you are facing homelessness.

Your best bet is start talking to local job recruiters, ask them what tech stacks and certs are in high demand, and go learn that stack and get those certs and take whatever job will pay you.

Once your bills are getting paid you probably will have time/energy to work on personal projects.

The vast majority of work is closed source proprietary stuff.

In fact to be more specific, the vast majority is mind numbing "thing" management CRUD applications.

Inventory management, people management, accounting, etc etc.

"We wanna make an app for managing (things)" is gonna be your life for awhile.

It's also heavily a lot of "we had this (thing) management app made by someone 12 years ago. It's now barely functional, riddled with bugs, has huge security holes, and has tens of thousands of users every day on it. We want you to add new features to it and not fix any of the existing massive issues at all. We have no idea how it works, it has zero documentation, we don't even know where it is hosted atm, and you will count yourself lucky of you even get the git history"

You heavily want to focus your skills first and foremost on how to read other people's code. How to interpret wtf this zero documented function does and how it works.

That's your #1 skill.