Earning Money

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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In college it’s not incredibly easy to make money. We’ve talked about making money online as well as selling your old belongings. But if you’re not Internet-inclined or you run out of things to sell, what are you going to do? Well this is the time where you need to rely on your talents. What do I mean by talents? Let me explain.

Are you a girl who is absolutely fastidious about her manicure? Do you know how to give one? Consider offering $10 manicures to the girls in your dorm. Most girls can’t get away from campus and would love to have someone focus on working on their appearance. Guys, do you know how to use a hair trimmer? One of my family members paid for his books each semester by cutting hair. Again, a lot of students can’t get away from campus and are more than willing to pay $5-10 for a haircut.

What do I do? Well actually this next semester my plan is do henna tattoos. Now if you’re familiar with henna (mehndi) it is a herb that when painted onto the skin, tints the layers of dead skin cells. It’s highly well tolerated, does not involve any pain whatsoever, and does not enter the bloodstream with unknown chemicals. Since I am artistically inclined, I will print out a book of designs that I know I can do, as well as bring several cones of prepared paste that I did at home. Henna tattoos usually cost $5 per square inch at popular venues. However, since the herb actually only costs me $2.00 for 100 grams and would easily cover 5 large designs, I would only charge $3.00 per square inch. Again, the profit is still very respectable. If you are interested in learning more about henna, I suggest you do a lot of research on the best techniques as well as tricks of the trade. It is a very cool way to make money if you are talented with art.

So take a moment and think of your talents. If nothing else, consider cleaning dorms for money. If you aren’t artistic, you can’t play music, you don’t know how to cook or cut hair or anything of that nature, you can run a vacuum. A single dorm room might earn you $20-$50 dollars. Remember, it’s not easy to make money in college but it’s not impossible.

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