With the expense of textbooks, tuition fees, transportation cost, accommodation cost and other extra-curricular activities cost, student life doesn’t come budget friendly or cheap. Bearing all these costs might turn you in need of earning some extra cash. If you find yourself in this scenario, here are the following ways you can make extra money with your education.
Private tuition
Become a private tutor to students in your institute, or in your neighborhood, or at your home, or teach online, or join any tuition academy nearby your home. This is a significant opportunity to avail and share your interests and earn money at the same time. Your tutoring timings totally depends on your availability. Also gives you the leverage of tutoring to whomsoever you would want to teach.
Work as a freelancer
You can also work as a freelance writer especially if you are a good and fast writer. You can write for blogs, articles, resume writing or newspaper/magazine etc. There are many businesses looking for the help of writers like for essay writing services (dissertationproposal, 2020), content writing services and writing to put together brochures etc.
There are many freelance platforms like Fiver, UpWork, etc. where you can get freelance jobs to earn money. Another interesting way to earn money is by offering article writing services or by doing proofreading for websites, blogs and authors which can be done anywhere at any time.
Participate in market research groups
You can participate in online surveys, and for this all you have to do is sign up for the market research groups and wait for them to respond by emailing a survey to you. This works as survey group operates on a point system, where you get the money or vouchers on the points earned through completing a survey.
Other way to earn money is through your participation in focus groups, where you get the money on the number of sessions attended personally. More the sessions attended the more you can earn. As they required your personal opinion about a marketing campaign or on a particular product.
Work on campus
You can work on campus to earn some extra money along with your studies. You can either become a teacher’s assistant, work part-time as your librarian assistant, become a student ambassador and some other flexible contracts offer by your university.
Start a blog
You can start making money online by writing a blog or creating a website. You can either earn money by making a blog for you or can give its services to other bloggers by working part-time on their blogs. They will charge you money per blog which you will write for them. You can also give services of creating websites to others and charge lump sum money per website you will create. This way your online work can turn into a hugely profitable venture.
Be a Virtual Assistant
You can also earn money by being a virtual assistant. There are many businesses and people looking out to outsource this work. This work includes research tasks, responding to emails, handling basic writing, and more. This can work as a part-time job and you can easily earn several dollars per month.
Design Work online
There is an opportunity for students who have immense interest in art and design world. Graphic designing work online for businesses and websites will help you to get that extra cash. You can either design for small advertisements or banners to redesigning for full site.
You can also show your designing creativity through T-shirts designing for online websites. You can either add phrases or funny sayings or design pictures along with it and sell it online.
Transcription work
If you think you got the knack of typing words fast per minute then transcription work is a great opportunity for earning those extra money with your education. There are many industries which are looking for people to work as a transcriber. Where you have to transcribe audio into text and you will get the payment of listening and converting through your typing into a text. For instance, there is an opportunity for students in podcast as they are looking for people to transcribe their episodes into text to post online.
YouTube vlogger
If you are great at making videos then YouTube vlogging is another great opportunity for your talent to come out and earn extra money. You will be paid on the amount of views you’ll get per video. Advertisements like money making apps displayed on these videos is going to make you money (Nasir et al., 2022). More the people view your video and get these advertisements on it, the more you will be earning through these videos.
Calligraphy
If you think you are great at calligraphy. Then there are ways to earn money through that. Either by writing calligraphy for invitations, stationary or by creating an Instagram page and sell to your clients through that. You can easily run that page and set prices accordingly and earn a good amount of money through that.
Drive for Uber/Careem
If you have a car and spare time after your studies. Becoming an uber or careem driver is a great way to earn money in few hours. You must have a driving license and must be knowledgeable of traffic rules and immense road sense. As this job is prone to road accidents with a minor mistake of the driver.
Selling stock photos or your other artwork
If you can create anything visual like a painting, computer animation and drawings as an artist. Then there is a great opportunity for you to sell your artwork online through different websites. Where users get 20% or 25% of the purchase price money depending upon the website. These websites allows you to upload your work online and earn money by getting sold out there to its clients.
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Nasir, N., Iqbal, F., Zaheer, M., Shahjahan, M. and Javed, M., 2022, May. Lures for Money: A First Look into YouTube Videos Promoting Money-Making Apps. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM on Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (pp. 1195-1206).
