<prompt> Human: Ive seen a few posts like this in PF before, but now that the audience is a little wider I wonder if we might get a much wider range of responses. I know similar posts would have been helpful to me as I was thinking about what major to choose and when I was looking for internshipsjobs.So: what is your salary? What do you do? How long have you been doing it?Bonus question: if you dont mind saying, do you live in a lowmed.high cost of living area?  <response>: I feel that this thread is not going to provide you the value that you want. The longer this thread is up the more tempting it will be for people to inflate their salaries or become discouraged from posting due to their low salary. You are not going to get meaningful salary data from any of this information. Further, choosing your major based on future earnings potential is smart but you should try to pick something you think you will enjoy doing it. If all you are interested in is chasing money you might get that money but chances are you wont do as well if you dont enjoy what you do.If you are truly interested in earning potential I would do more research from a larger database of information. Ive used salary.com in the past for research and it might be good enough for the information you are looking for. In my opinion the only thing you should take away from this post is the different jobs that people are fulfilling that you may have heard of. That is neat information.As for me, I studied computer engineering and now I work as a data scientist and software developer. I have a equity in a company I co-founded several years ago and run the IT department of that company. My salary is not important. Ive been doing this for 5.5 years now. 