Hardware is a steep mountain to climb, anon
I started with an A+ at 15
I'm over twice as old now and have a really solid career working for a top tech company
But it took me grinding that entire time, and taking additional certs like CCNP, etc.
If you have any talent for it at all, I'd mix in software development with your learning
Research the latest and greatest skillsets and languages and load up on that
Get a practice portfolio of some projects in said language/skillset together
This type of path can let you frog jump the 10 years of grinding progress that the hardware route would take you
Like I said, if you have talent for it, you can make over 100k as soon as you are able to demonstrate your competence
If you aren't great with straight coding, then look into vendor cloud certs and go that route
AWS, Google, Oracle etc. all have decent cert programs that could get you in the door and jumpstart your career at a high level