I had a friend I met doing open source who was still in high school. He was similarly looking for work, and eventually found a summer gig between his Jr and Sr

I had a friend I met doing open source who was still in high school. He was similarly looking for work, and eventually found a summer gig between his Jr and Sr year of high school. The thing that got him in the door was attending meetups. We were doing JavaScript stuff so he attended his local NodeJS meetup and met some people who eventually hired him. So if you're in a location where they have dev meetups I'd get out and attend, talk to people, maybe even present.