Earning Money

I watched a movie tonight with my brother called The Departed. You know, it has Leonardo DiCapprio and Matt Damon and a nice cast of actors. The thing, though, that I took from the movie was one thing: “No one in this world’ll give you anything, you have to take it.” Now, I am not saying to anyone on this blog that I think you should be a crook. If you are, I have no respect for you and I don’t want you reading my blog. What I am saying is that you can’t expect to be given charity in this business. If you want to be successful, you have to earn that damn success. You can’t be given it.

I thought about it and I was reading some blog posts on different sites and I realized something. People are always asking those webmasters that are making a killing for money. People asking for money for a car and all of this garbage. I just laugh when I read them. I am broke, I have little money, and yet I have never begged for money. It’s not how you do business in this world. On the internet, you’re never going to get a break. There are those earners that already are making tons of cash and you can’t expect them to give you a single dime. Why should they? They started from the bottom and they earned their way up. You have to do the same thing.

Whether you are starting a business on the internet or off the internet, you can’t expect anyone to help you. You need to find your individuality and you need to work with that. Take it, don’t expect to be given it. If you want a part of the hosting market for a hosting company, take it! Offer a killer deal and get some clients. But if you can’t take it, you don’t deserve it. You need to be willing to work hard for what you want. In the end, you will succeed. But, you need to take what you want. Now, like I said, I don’t mean steal it. I just mean that if you want something, work for it, okay? Don’t beg or expect to get it. You need to earn it. And earn it good…When you look back at what you’ve earned, you can grin and smile in happiness, because you earned it.

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In my post about typing papers for money, I talked about how you could take your skill of typing and turn it into a business where you type (not write) papers for people because they can’t do it. And Rose mentioned in her post about using your talents that if you can do something good, do it. Well, the same goes if you are smart. Who says that smart people can’t make money? Did you know that Bill Gates was teased all the time as a teenager because he was so smart? Now look at him…I hate to say it, but I’d take being teased every day for that many billions of dollars. That’s a lot of money. But…Being a tutor can also make you money!

There are two ways that you can do this. The first is through the school. Often times, the school will hire students, pay them hourly, to tutor students for free. At least, that’s how my school is. You contact the Dean or something and express your interest and then if you are qualified, you are given the job. The student gets tutored for free and you get a check every two weeks that is the money that you earned from tutoring. It’s a nice deal, but you have little control over how much money you make and it is all based on a “I have to work an hourly basis to actually make money.”

The other way that you can make money from tutoring is that you control it. This works best in bigger universities. Post a bulletin in the different buildings of your campus and basically tell them that you’ll tutor them. It can be one on one if you want, but an evil way (not really) to make more money is to actually do group tutoring. Say five people need biology help. You say that you’re all meeting at the same time, charge each one ten bucks, and then tutor them all for that hour. Well, you made fifty dollars for helping five people in ONE room. That’s consolidating your time as well as making fifty dollars for an hour of work. Pretty nice, huh?

Now, being a tutor can be difficult if you don’t know your topic really well, but people usually know at least ONE topic in college. If you can specialize in that topic and offer exceptional tutoring in it, you’re bound to make money. You need to establish a network of clients, of course, but if you can set up those group tutoring dates, it’ll make earning money a hell of a lot easier and it’ll make having time for your own studies a hell of a lot easier. And since you’re going to college to learn yourself, you don’t want to spend all your time ensuring others are doing good. Try it out next semester and see if you have any success.

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