Where to go: radio electronics engineer or web programmer?

Question

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I have been interested in radio electronics since childhood and I am graduating from a university in this field. But now computers have also gone (I didn’t have it as a child) and over time I mastered it well. That is, I can solder and make all sorts of devices, but at the same time I am also fond of web development (PHP/Python). And along the way, I have to delve into unix administration, a bit of Windows programming and tinkering with x86 architecture (but it's more of a necessity / interest to know the platform and its work / tinkering with dos games). Along the way, I smoke microcontrollers (a kind of bridge between these two areas).
In radio electronics, the experience is a hobby, I repaired and did something for myself or out of interest. For several years I have been freelancing a little in the field of PHP, I study Python more deeply (ideologically, I like it more and I don’t want to mess with all sorts of Bitrix / Joomla. Just like in the frontend). In general, I’m self-taught, at the university they gave general knowledge in mathematics and physics (it’s clear that in a group of uninterested people they won’t teach programming and circuitry in a semester. But they gave matan and physical knowledge, at least I know what limits, derivative and I can read literature (when I was a schoolboy, I didn’t understand matan in FFT, I wanted to somehow implement it myself).
In this regard, the question is where to succumb? Work in a direct specialty to develop electronics / write firmware for microcontrollers or start seriously doing back-end development in the field of web programming on the same freelance? I'm still afraid that the radio-electronic field in Russia is collapsed and the salaries are lower than those of programmers (working for 15k, investing in a dead factory, and driving there every day through traffic jams is not very interesting, when I can already get 20-30k working PHP as a programmer at home (preferably switch to Python / go to some UpWorks thread / a good software company)).
I would like to hear your opinions. I am not going to abandon these areas, but some of them should feed, and the second will become a hobby. Still, you can’t spread yourself too much (let me hack assembler / administration / programming under Windows, but this is purely for myself and to the extent necessary, and not knowing all the configs by heart, the ability to assemble kernels, memorized WinAPI / .NET Framework, the ability to program in ASME under long mode).

Answer 1

To Army

Answer 2

If I were you with today's thinking and ideals, I would gladly go to the radio electronics engineer. Web programming is not even programming as such, real programmers who write in c++ just laugh. A dead end path of development, despite the fact that programmers become software engineers in Google and Microsoft, and the level of abstraction is growing.
And this despite the fact that you can learn to be a tolerable web programmer in a year at home, in the evenings. On a radio electronics engineer - hardly.
To be the web programmer of the future, you have to be much more than a professional today. I suppose the basis is the performance of highly loaded systems, big data, ux (and user psychology), well, a little familiar layout, familiar js.

Answer 3

In electronics: there the entry threshold is higher.

Answer 4

In web programmers: you can work remotely, so the income will be 2 times higher than in Moscow for a similar level.
Roughly speaking, after 7 years in Moscow you will have 150tr of modern money per month, and 300tr in freelancing.

Answer 5

take it and combine it: servers on older MKs like STM32F7xx
with hands will be torn off by both.
and if you master the servers on plisins - in general, the fire will be, even with the work is very tight (you're right, we have broken down electronics), BUT you can make the most productive solutions that you can do at all and no nginx was around: it will be hardcore in hi-load areas (salary from 200tr and above, and the tasks are the coolest)

Answer 6

Why not try to match?

Answer 7

You don’t read the news, for example: www.vedomosti.ru/technology/articles/2015/09/30/61... POSSIBLE
, in the near future they will invest big money in the production of both microcircuits and devices based on them (they will not while foreigners assemble devices on Russian microcircuits) ...
You look, soon the country will need radio electronics ...