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GianFabien 12 minutes ago | next [–]
Programming embedded systems using Atmel and similar low-cost SoC's is very much like working on computers in the 1980s and 1990s. But with PC hosted dev tools far easier and cheaper.
Since you mention an interest in this space, consider buying an Arduino kit and building some cool personal projects. Once you have some experience, look around your part of the world and identify any needs that you could solve with an embedded solution.

bell-cot 2 hours ago | prev | next [–]
YES, it was for-sure cooler.
Memory mattered. Ditto CPU cycles, disk, and network bandwidth. (Not that your code could count on there being a network, in a lot of cases.) Security wasn't a Garden of Eden...but now that can feel more like being a night-shift ICU nurse during a COVID surge that never ends. And the software stack under your code was orders of magnitude smaller, and slower-changing. These days - that can feel like you aren't a programmer, but instead a Wall Street attorney who's trying to pilot some giga-corporate merger through the shifting regulatory and political obstacles in 37 different countries.