Welcome to The Club @infohiking 
Sounds like you’ve got a pretty well structured approach to your career path 
I’m sure others would have better suggestions than me for objectives 1 and 2 so I’ll offer my own experience for objective 3 and it might help you.
I used Crowd Source Testing to help me get a range of experience in different areas (and help me pay off some bills). I started with Products and sites to practice testing on first though to help me get some foundations experience so those two might help