What I mean is there are aspects of embedded work that can be found in other jobs which are potentially more lucrative and may make your life easier later in yo

What I mean is there are aspects of embedded work that can be found in other jobs which are potentially more lucrative and may make your life easier later in your career. So, unless there's something in embedded work in particular, that you can't find elsewhere, it might be considering those jobs. An example might be, if you like bit twiddling, digging into hard often hardware related problem, you might consider something like an SRE role.