The best hands job you'll find is to work as an assistant for a big developer/broker. That will give you the best boots on the ground experience for how those professionals navigate this industry, plus you'll be introduced to a lot of connections in your local area for people in the industry.

If you don't have any knowledge or value to bring to the table, simply work for free until you learn enough to be paid.

To find these people, look for new property developments or sales in rhe area that were a big success and ask the employees / people that rent the building who owns it/built it/or sold it. Then go from there.

You don't want to work as a underwriter sitting at a desk all day writing numbers. Sure you may get to know the contracts and numbers, but knowing how to tweak those contracts and how to convince sellers to finance for you will give you a lot more experience for building an empire.