If you have focused, for about ten years or more, on working as a Software Engineer... you probably want to be a Software Engineer, and not a designer, persona

If you have focused, for about ten years or more, on working as a Software Engineer... you probably want to be a Software Engineer, and not a designer, personal assistant, or any other role. You seem to view that as a restriction cast upon them by their degree(s). I say that they probably really like being a software engineer.