[ThrowawayR2]

> "But I can't lie that I worry about whether I should be focusing on web tech and that embedded stuff will fall off."

While they're never going to be as plentiful as web jobs, it seems unlikely embedded jobs are going to be decreasing anytime soon. The market for industrial and consumer IoT and wireless mobile devices just keeps on growing and growing. Unless you actually prefer webdev over embedded, there's no reason to jump ship and every reason not to waste your specialized education.

If anything, it's more likely that web development will hit a peak and then start declining. As people on HN are fond of proclaiming, much of a college education isn't needed to be a successful web developer (very much unlike embedded development). So every year, more and more people keep flooding into web development and that is bound to depress wages and demand at some point.

[type0]

Not every web dev is CRUD kind of work, but you're right that low hanging fruits get picked up very fast.