> I really enjoy this kind of low-level stuff, which I guess makes me an outlier, but on the other hand it's been good for my career to carve out a niche doing stuff that a lot of people don't want to do.

That’s me, except I’m not working in that space. But low-level code seems to be where my mind works best.

How did you get your first job doing firmware programming? I’ve wanted to do that for years, but I don’t know where to start.