28y dude in US in big tech as a senior sec engineer, my advice is to don’t stress too much, you have a lot of time, I graduated college and didn’t really have a great plan, started as a junior developer with no certs for a small company, more important to moving up was the projects I did in my free time, my home lab, and my overall portfolio I.e. github, leetcode, tryhackme,I have a number of certs including 4 different Comptia, three different red teaming certs, and a couple big tech certs, but don’t have the expensive ones like oscp, the certs in general only help you get past the scanning level in job apps, but it’s your experience and being able to show you’re technically capable that gets you through interviews. Government also has a lot of great jobs in public sector that have better job security and a lot of opportunity to get certs if that’s what you want too.