>What's your motivation if I may ask? Just curious.
Same. Mostly the possibility of WFH which is absent if you ever need to touch lower level HW. Pay I can take it or leave it.
> the higher level stuff seems easier
It's not really easier though. I had a 3 month stint doing some backend contract work and the amount of framework fuckery and the speed of development on live web systems that customers use, can be crazy stressful compared to embedded.
It's like changing the components of a car, while driving it. Shit breaks much more often. Embedded felt much less stressful since any of my commits to production didn't instantly impact thousands of customers at once like on the web, with the risk of fucking their data or experience.
Same. Mostly the possibility of WFH which is absent if you ever need to touch lower level HW. Pay I can take it or leave it.
> the higher level stuff seems easier
It's not really easier though. I had a 3 month stint doing some backend contract work and the amount of framework fuckery and the speed of development on live web systems that customers use, can be crazy stressful compared to embedded.
It's like changing the components of a car, while driving it. Shit breaks much more often. Embedded felt much less stressful since any of my commits to production didn't instantly impact thousands of customers at once like on the web, with the risk of fucking their data or experience.