From a salary survey in 2001:

Usability is a well-paying profession these days: A usability specialist in California with five years\’ experience has an estimated cash compensation of $90,118 a year, not counting stock options or other benefits.

I look forward to buying the prerequisite environmentally-safe geek car, a Toyota Prius (almost every silicon valley professional I have met owns a hybrid or…they own an apple powerbook). Not to mention a house with integrated computing technology…hey why not ubiquitous computing–the wonders of my research (the paper I wrote–okay, a graduate student kindly included my name as a co-author–on privacy issues in location computing was recently accepted at DIS2004 conference) with me knowing where everyone in my house is located at that very moment, the ability to get real-time directions, the ability to go into my cabinent and have a computer figure out exactly what I want to eat based on my previous weight-gaining snacking habits, the ability to perfect my stalking skills with a gesture toward the wall…

Oh and…I would like a house with glass walls. The walls that can be chemically tinted with a touch of the button and revealed like a fishbowl during the day!