5 months after CCNA

Just wanted to give an update on my job situation as someone who got the CCNA 5 months ago. About me: I'm a telecommunications technician, currently working a mining job in Australia where we build the networks (run fiber, install all hardware etc) in the mining camps. I was supervisor of telecommunications at the Golfing event at the Olympic Games in France last year. Since passing I am applying to EVERY. SINGLE. job listing in my area (capital city of my state). First for network engineer, junior network engineer, NOC technician, Sysadmin, Server Engineer, Junior Systems Engineer. As I got more desperate I have also been applying to 100+ Helpdesk, Service Desk Engineer and 1st Level Support roles. Literally spending 2 hours a day scouring the net for listings.

In my current company, they keep saying the network engineers don't have time to train someone, and when I kept pushing the topic about doing the shit work noone else wants to do my boss literally said he doesn't care about a cert with no experience. He actually laughed at me when I demanded to know how I can possibly get experience when noone wants to fucking train a newbie. Grinds my gears and I don't want to stay there much longer.

I have been getting into final stages of the interviewing process a few times for network engineering positions, and have always been passed over for someone with experience. Can't get the job because no experience, can't get experience because noone hires you.

I have not received a single response from all the support roles I applied for.

I then started looking into roles that combine my trades skills with some basic networking (like network deployment) and it's always been the same - at first excitement about my CCNA, but when I tell them my current employer won't let me log into the switches after I have mounted them in a rack and connected to fiber I spliced and patched them into the patch panels I terminated so they can talk to the Access Points & CCTV cameras I have mounted all over the premises I can feel the dissappointment in their voices.

I'm honestly extremely dissappointed with the CCNA and how it hasn't improved my career at all. All these hours of studying and now noone wants to let me log into their routers and switches because I have never logged into a router or switch in a work environment. CCNA without experience isn't worth anything apparently, the job market has made that very clear to me in the last 5 months. I've enjoyed some success in my current career, and keep getting offers for telco roles, so I don't think I'm unhireable or have a glaring red flag in my CV. Yet, noone gives a shit about my CCNA. It has done exactly nothing for me so far.

Either the job market ia completely cooked right now or the CCNA isn't what it used to be.