> If you are smart and driven enough to build a device you can certainly go out and get pretty good programming gig. The job market/job opportunities for progr

> If you are smart and driven enough to build a device you can certainly go out and get pretty good programming gig. The job market/job opportunities for programmers is/are much worse in many other countries. Also consider that many programming jobs that exist are actually quite boring (think into the direction of implementing LoB applications in a department that is considered a cost center instead of profit center). In my experience, there exist not that many programming jobs that give satisfaction to highly smart people, and getting such a job often requires some very specific traits that are quite different from raw intelligence.