[DamonHD]

My feeling is that Web dev is a commodity: embedded is a rarer more defensible skill set.

Being fungible has its pros on upswings and cons on market downswings.

I don't think that I've ever been paid for Web dev work per se, but I have done a fair amount of more specialist stuff including embedded and financial and have only been on other people's payrolls for a tiny amount of time, and with a variety of working arragements, over decades. So I think that you can stick with embedded if you want to.

[brodouevencode]

This is a good take. I can hire just about any JS/TypeScript I want, but if I need a C engineer (in which I actually might before year end) they are harder to find and command more salary.

One thing that I would recommend is that you get your name out there and become as well known as you can within your domain of expertise. This would give you more lateral freedom to pick and choose jobs that allow the benefits you're looking for.

[lzzzam]

Thanks for your feedback Damon! Would love to know more about your career path and how you balanced it with your personal life.

Would you like to share more?

[DamonHD]

My CV is a couple of clicks away through my profile, which might answer your questions!