Keep living in your made up fear.
Hiring manager here, the best thing you can do is work on certifications. Microsoft Learn has a ton of info and the certs are reasonably cheap. There is also a ton of stuff on YouTube, for example Professor Messer’s Security+. There is also a great demand for VMware admins.
If you can setup some computers at home and make yourself a lab, build VMs on hypervisors of your choice and talk about that during your interviews that’s big bonus points too.
I have it on good authority, if you type Google into Google, you can break the internet.
The catch is its time consuming since it doesn’t support Playlist. There are similar tools that also support up to 100nsong Playlist.