Seeking Feedback on Career Transition: From Firefighter to Remote Work/Digital Nomad

[DragonDF]

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First of all, I would like to thank the 3 members for their participation.
I will respond to them separately.
Yesterday I was organizing and executing the barbecue to celebrate my birthday and I was left offline.

Which country are these degrees from? Are they in English or foreign language?
You should first get the foreign degrees evaluated by a NACES or ACEI approved evaluator with GPA equivalent. Wes, Spantran, Scholaro, there are several options. It is cheaper to have them evaluated at the same time. If you do it separately, it will cost 200 USD while they only charge 100 for every additional evaluation in the same bundle.

This could be useful to accelerate any US degrees because some of these foreign courses can fulfill general education or electives. That lets you only focus on the courses needed for your major.

I am from Brazil. So, they are not in English. I'll need to pay for translation and after that pay for the evaluation in the USA. $$ (in some cases, it can be cheaper to do it all again in Sophia, Saylor, etc. in ONE month for less than what I will have to pay to evaluate my country's courses - maybe I am wrong)

Opening a parenthesis about the budget is important, especially for people who don't live in third-party countries.

Today: 1 dollar = R$ 6,19, without talking about taxes to convert.
The minimum national salary in Brazil is R$ 1.518,00 (U$ 245)

I think I need to explain it because there is a difference in culture but also in purchasing power just because you are in another country.  

This situation I think can be similar to other 3rd-party countries, so it is important to insert this here because if in the USA you can make nearly U$ 10K / month as an Uber Driver, this is NOT the same condition you will earn in other countries.
U$ 50 - U$ 100 is the amount that some Universities here ask as a monthly fee. So, you will pay U$ 300 - 600 per semester.

When you (all) talk about budgets from people outside the USA, I think it will make it easy to understand that if they earn a national minimum wage, this will mean less than U$ 250, a day of work as an Uber delivery driver. 

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So, people from third-party countries will try to do all courses in the minimum time and for less money as possible. If it is possible to do without being in the USA, the EAD model, is better, because the housing cost in the USA will be bigger (5 times) than what he receives in his home country. 
I am not talking about me alone, I am explaining because if I were in the USA, maybe I could be earning something near U$ 200K / year. As I did not born there, things were a bit more "difficult" (pros and cons).

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One suggested way to accelerate an IT degree is to start doing the google certificate courses. The IT Support cert would be a useful option.

Yes, I am already doing it.
I will explain why: I searched for Universities in the USA that accepted international students in the EAD (ONLINE) model. So, I could start the study in my actual country.
The first option I found was: The University of the People. I was really happy with that option. I went to Youtube to watch videos about UoP. I watched at least 50 videos.

I did not know there was a difference between Regional and National Accreditation. For me, a University was a University.