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Re:The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences by joezydeco on Monday May 10, 2021 @09:33AM (#27105799)
No, there isn't real money in this. I've been doing it 30 years now and my earnings curve will never match what a webdev gets.

Firmware engineers are the out-of-sight-out-of-mind component in the product development spectrum.

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Re:The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences by kingsuper20 on Monday May 10, 2021 @10:55AM (#27106598)
To be fair, nobody's wages were particularly high 30 years ago.

Although the money has been decent, programming complicated devices has spoiled me for one thing..I have just about essentially zero interest in web technologies, products, languages. I've always gotten to work on the sexier version of embedded work and so feel really blessed, it's not all about the lucre.

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Re:The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences by the_only_law on Monday May 10, 2021 @10:57AM (#27106624)
Just curious, what’s included in the “sexier” version of embedded work?
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Re:The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences by ksec on Monday May 10, 2021 @01:58PM (#27108860)
>my earnings curve will never match what a webdev gets.

Which is the saddest part of it all.

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