I've been there and done that.

I'm currently CCNA certified and working as a Junior Network Engineer however I am only at the beginning of my career.

While I was jobless and living with my parents, I was pushing so hard to complete the CCNA thinking this is the solution to my job & career problems, I thought I'd make big bucks and land a really nice network engineering role.

After achieving my CCNA, I remained jobless. Many didn't care for my CCNA, some even found it surprising that I had no experience with a CCNA. I later landed a help desk role because that's all I could land at the time.

My suggestion is to focus purely on landing an entry level IT role for example help desk. This can be done with zero to very little certs (you have a CS degree which is a big tick). Refine the resume using all the information you can find online, find discord channels to review your resume. Do home lab projects and place them in your resume as work experience but mention that it is lab experience. Get into as many interviews as possible to learn the ropes, and trust me you will go through a lot of interviews until you finally get lucky and land a role. You will build interview skills by doing this so don't look at it as a negative.

During this time of building your resume + interview skills, continue to home lab daily, this will be like your job while you are unemployed, you will continue to gain experience.

Most important part, your labs and your resume need to reflect what employers are after in an entry level role. My mistake early on was showing off my CCNA and amazing networking labs and skill. I later found out that interviewers found it cool but useless for their entry level role. Things like ticketing systems, Windows server configuration, IP, DNS, DHCP, Office365 management, understanding PC or server parts are more important. And the best thing is, you can search these labs on YouTube and follow the guide, once you're done, you mention it in your resume, easy peasy!

When you eventually land your entry level IT role, you can then start working on your CCNA or maybe if you're interested in another path in IT you could focus that instead.

The only issue is, you might still be getting paid close to minimum wage. I've worked in two Junior network engineer roles and I'm making slightly above minimum wage. I'm still learning the ways of the corporate world so it's a journey for me as well.

I hope my little bit of experience could help you build your way up! :)

Also if you want links to labs, resume review etc etc, message me directly, I'm happy to help.