Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten entire tech ecosystems

Re:Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten ... by scruple on Monday July 18, 2022 @09:29PM (#32146407)

I left embedded for web in 2014 and I doubled my salary overnight. My experience from embedded translated to an ability to troubleshoot problems that baffled others and has led to a lot of personal career growth that I suspect I wouldn't have otherwise seen. Wish it wasn't like this, because I quite miss what I was doing in that previous life, but it is what it is.

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Re:Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten ... by dougmany on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @12:38AM (#32147600)

I have an EE degree and was in embedded for a few years. I kept getting hired for that one problem, then was no longer needed. All the jobs I could find were short term contract work or "Thanks for fixing that, now we don't need you" situations. I still get emails about short term, in office work in the Midwest. I enjoyed the work but I couldn't find stable employment. Embedded worked out to be a good transition to software and then web development though.

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Re:Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten ... by joezydeco on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @12:47AM (#32147648)

I'm considering the same. Out of curiosity, did you jump into front end or back end dev?

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Re:Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten ... by scruple on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @12:52AM (#32147678)

Primarily backend... But I had a 2 year stint as a data engineering lead and then led a ReactJS SPA product development team for 18 months. I'm back to the backend now, though, and I'm very happy with it.

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