As someone who has recently left embedded engineering to pursue other avenues, I got tired of: 1. Being paid much less than my similarly leveled colleagues 2.

As someone who has recently left embedded engineering to pursue other avenues, I got tired of: 1. Being paid much less than my similarly leveled colleagues 2. Needing to work with engineers well outside my timezone 3. Being hounded by recruiters to do bluetooth comms and nothing but bluetooth comms 4. Having to be very careful to not put myself in a position where I need to fly to China to deal with manufacturing issues on a moments notice 5. Lack of remote work opportunites for obvious reasons I do enjoy working on low level code but not enough to deal with the industry in its current state.