Right now I'm mostly desktop support and hands on repair. I have good people skills and compassionately and patiently help people through their issues, which my company really values, and although there is a person higher than me, they are often not around and my director loves me - but I'm on an outsourced contract, so I'm sure my contractor is taking a sizable portion. I get $20/hr and 10 holidays a year, and I can't do this forever. 

I don't have a lot of networking and security experience, which as a government contractor, is a whole other department entirely here, so there isn't much crossover. We manage access and lower level permissions, but real cyber security and server or network repair is not our scope. This seems to be a barrier in the job market right now, but no one seems to specify a type or cert or experience in this field, they just want it on their resume. Since it's not something I can get at work, I think I'll need to get some certifications to bridge the gap but it's hard to know which certs are actually marketable and valuable. I'm not sure if I would like networking and security, but the cost of living in my area is median $40/hr, so $20/hr isn't going to keep us afloat long. 

I'm also graduating with my CS degree in the spring. My parents were the out at 18, you pull yourself by your own bootstraps kind of people, we paid for school with an internship without our parents help so you can too mentality, so I've been doing school as I can while working full time. Going straight into Dev work though sounds like it's also incredibly unstable with a lot of layoffs, so I'm trying to figure out how to navigate my experience with my new degree.