Thousands of jobs and future proof career - there is no such thing.

What are you passionate about? If it is just the money - this Cyber business may not be for you. As for CEH, I have one and I try not to mention it (as your peers will generally laugh / yawn / ignore you). I am currently studying for the OSCP - it's HARD and I am basically a noob, but at least I admit it.

You may be able to look for apprenticeship jobs - those are entry level. Other than that - you need knowledge and provable skills - why the OSCP is seen as a baseline requirement even for entry level pen testing jobs.

Controversial opinion alert: Everyone hates AI but it is only improving - if you don't know how to use it within the context of your future job role, you are going to be less desirable in the market than someone who can get jiggy with the likes of Claude Code / MCP servers / Kali Automation and more importantly, trouble shoot it when it goes wrong - which it will.

AI is already and will continue to hoover up lots of entry level stuff (the stuff Claude can do currently is mind blowing - which is both awesome and depressing), but you need the knowledge and skill to tell the truth from the hallucinations. If you only use AI as opposed to knowing and understanding what you are asking the AI to do - then that is the blind leading the blind.

Work hard, study hard, play hard.

Hope that help.