For such a lifestyle, no matter how carefully you budget your monthly expenditure, halfway through the month something new always comes up and you’re in need of some extra money.
Here are six effective ways you can make a little extra money without skipping your academic tasks and activities to make it work!
Tutoring
Tutoring can be a great opportunity to help your students gain an understanding of those courses while improving your own teaching skills. You can earn pretty decent cash based on your location, your specialization and your expertise. The best thing with tutoring is you can decide your own working hours and reschedule with your students without too much hassle if any deadlines pop up.
Research assisting
Along with paying hard cash, Research assisting has a lot to offer. An assistantship lets you gather experiences in a relevant field or job profile which can be added to your portfolio. It endeavours to develop your communication skills enabling you to expand your network. You’ll get to meet a lot of people — professors, lab mates, and people from other labs. Not to mention, such experiences may aid you indirectly later in your professional life.
Writing and editing
As a student, you have to spend hours after hours writing for academic purposes. Do you know you can get paid by many brands, newspapers, magazines, journals, popular blogs, independent websites and portals to help communicate their messages in the real world?
Freelance writing can be an excellent way of making money after regular classes and studies as it allows you work on your flexible hours which lets your creativity juices flow incorporating your expertise.
Freelancing
The world of freelancing is open to you if you have skill that others would hire you to perform. This can be graphic designing, digital marketing, writing and translation, animation, programming or other administrative work. There are plenty of online marketplace designed for clients looking for freelancers and freelancers looking for jobs like Fiverr, Upwork, Freelancer, Student Freelance, and Guru.
From 2014, the ICT division has been offering training programmes in freelancing skills such as graphic designing, web development and designing, and digital marketing for free to the undergraduate students countrywide. By utilizing the opportunity, you can make money working at home.
Photography
Photography blog and YouTube channel can be a great idea to earn money by monetizing your content online. If you have a sizable collection of high quality photos, you can stock and sell them through trusted stock photography sites like ShutterStock, iStock, BigStock, and Flickr.
YouTubing
Find out your expertise, develop groundbreaking video content and finally monetize your content through Google AdSense. YouTube not only pays you revenue, but also helps you in gaining massive popularity among youths around you.
Source : Daily Observer
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