> Basically, the US is a really bad place to be an electrical engineer specializing in electronic hardware, but it's a great place to be a software engineer or

> Basically, the US is a really bad place to be an electrical engineer specializing in electronic hardware, but it's a great place to be a software engineer or developer. Its because software engineers get paid much better in addition to more options. As a firmware engineer I straddled both sides. So many of my EE colleagues lamented they should have done more on the software side. A few of the brilliant ones moved to places like Google, Amazon which need them for specialist roles. I remember a decade back I was visiting a customer in Taiwan to help debug our product and saw a legion of Chinese engineers helping out some project. I knew eventually Taiwan would lose some of their R&D to China.