[lelanthran]

I moved out of embedded.

It pays very little, there's very few opportunities to move around, you need to have relatively good practical electrical/electronic skills and the technical skills you do get don't contribute at all if you're trying to bootstrap side-projects.

[fest]

Yes, that probably depends on the relative availabilty/demand in your location. I personally __probably__ would have earned a bit more overall if I had done web stuff, but at least in Eastern Europe, experienced embedded people can get similar comp than they would at web/mobile/enterprise jobs.

[m-ee]

Congrats on moving out. I'd say the need for electrical skills depends a lot on what you're doing and the state of your company. $BIGTECH with large EE team or embedded linux? Probably ok if you can read a schematic and nothing else. Microcontroller firmware at a small/medium company? Better bring it then. Hardware issues can show up in strange ways. I had some firmware hardfaults that seemed to be stack corruption, root cause was a completely screwed up analog circuit.