Technical curiosity will get you far in this industry. The best people I've worked with or hired over the years have been the ones that genuinely want to understand how something works, learn from it and continue to push themselves.
As frustrating as tech can be at times, there's probably no better time to try something new for free. Learn to code, vibe code a small / personal project, setup a free AWS account and spin up an instance, read up on LLMs...but learn something.