Thoughts on the value of a non STEM "Big Brand" bachelors degree as an adult student

[Stoic]

I've been doing research and it seems like a lot of people on LinkedIn with non STEM related bachelors are not financially stable from the outside looking in unless they become entrepreneurs or get into high ticket sales, etc. I'm seeing people with bachelors from Duke, Harvard University, Brown, NYU and other similar colleges in intern positions, volunteering, or stuck in jobs where you think (from the perspective of an observer) that the brand of the degree doesn't matter and anyone who's at the right place or the right time could very well be performing their job instead. Also, after doing a search for "Harvard ALB" on LinkedIn I'm seeing cases where a person gets an ALB from Harvard (HES) and then follows it up with a 3rd tier masters and it makes the overall profile of the person look bad, and on top of that their job does not change in accordance with the time frame spent in school when looking at their progress timeline. This is touching up on what @alexf.1990  and @cookderosa  mentioned in an earlier thread and it makes a lot of sense when you start evaluating these things. It's almost a no brainer as an adult student to get the quickest bachelors possible with RA accreditation (brand doesn't matter as much as we think. It's all in our head) and follow it up a strong specialized masters. What's interesting is that now in days you could even re-brand your whole profile with a STEM related masters if you want to go that route, and for the most part your bachelors doesn't matter if the accreditation is regionally accepted and you got whatever pre-requirements are needed to enroll into the program. It does seem like we are moving towards a period where the bachelors degree is really thew new high school diploma.