Also called: Records Storage Clerk, Underground Records Vault Worker
Stores and retrieves millions of boxes of documents, tapes and film for companies, sometimes in former limestone mines underground.
You drive a cart through a cave-like storage vault deep under Kansas City, scanning barcodes to find a box a law firm needs today. Later you load film reels from a movie studio into a cold, climate-controlled room.
Estimated; warehouse clerk pay.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
High school diploma, about 0.25 years after high school. High school plus on-the-job training.
Ways in: On-the-job training. Training cost: Get paid while you train.
Majors to look at: None required.
Growing slowly. Digital records reduce paper, but old archives remain.
Medium risk for 10 years. Digitizing shrinks paper storage, but physical vaults still need staff.
Age 18+. One way to start: Apply to records storage companies (like Iron Mountain) for records tech jobs
Classes: Business, Computer science, History.
Official data: O*NET occupation 43-4071.
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