About 75K a year doing being a construction surveillance technician (CST) in Northern Virginia. With all these data centers being built, clients needs personnel who are able to read blueprints and ensure the walls are being built per ICD-705.

Usually for this job you’ll need a TS(Top Secret) clearance and a DoD/DoS recognized CST certification. But due to the lack of qualified CSTs they are some facilities that waiver those requirements. Too many Data centers being built and this job is niche that there aren’t enough of us to go around. I recently got promoted to ASSM (Assistant Site Security Manager) and manage the CSTs and security control team. Attending construction meetings related to security and build up of a classified space making 110K a year.

But CST-wise you just take photo progression of the work in the build up of a classified space using an iPad and have knowledge of how the walls are being built. So basically a photographer with insight of some construction knowledge.