You have time to post on HN, you have time to code on the side.
OSCP is worse than useless -- combining
And even if you get it... you'll probably be 80 to 100% travel.
Pentesting is not a fun gig. Focus on automation etc but... that's hard if you grew up poor.
(My area, Appalachia, is as poor as some of the areas we outsource too, but it's maginified by if you must rely on parents for college etc and never amass wealth of your own, you're on a dark path)
Your best bet is to do fun projects, and save as much money as possible.
I regret not traveling more when I had an emergency fund, forever afraid to give my name or let someone spend the night lest they go into the computer or something. I will always regret that.
Anyways... try to write some scripts of your own, and put them on github, and share them here, and you might get something.
I got my first decent offer that took me out of a terrible situation when I wrote some toy scripts that did things like use python's RNG to generate a passphrase, take the MAC up and down.
Another option is to go more of an analyst route but... my Bellingcat cert didn't help much.
But to be honest, if you're precarious, it might be best to save up as much as possible, and hostel in the EU -- you'll find a partner or a job, most likely.
(Since I was American, they didn't help me, so I went back to where I came and eventually had my hard drives fail and lost most of the memories.)
Sorry to be flippant but... so many here are millionaires and billionaires -- it breaks my heart to see smart people told to give up their savings to prove things we know they have when we see their code, see their speech.
And on top of everything, you speak (or at least write) English well -- a huge asset. Own that. Many struggle because of comms issues.