5 Side Jobs That Are Suitable for Students
Sometimes the same activities on campus can make a student feel bored, perhaps deciding to look for a side or part time job as an alternative to overcome this feeling of boredom. Apart from filling free time, doing part time work also seems cool, you know, because you can be said to be an independent person, who doesn’t rely too much on money from parents, which is really cool.
Part-time jobs that are suitable for students
Maybe I will share some side or part time jobs that suit my experience as a student majoring in information engineering.
1. Open services according to expertise
Because I have expertise in coding and websites, the most suitable thing to do as a side job is to open this website creation service. Apart from the pretty good prospects, it is also very easy to do because it is in line with what you learn on campus. In the beginning, it was very difficult to get closings, but if you continue while adding to your portfolio, there will definitely be interested potential customers.
To start this service business, the best thing is to start offering services to people close to you first, such as our family, relatives or friends, don’t think about high pay, at first just focus on collecting a portfolio, if you have a lot then you can increase prices to customers. other.
Also applies to services in other areas of expertise.
2. Online Ojek (OJOL)
Several of my close friends have registered to become online motorcycle taxi drivers (Gojek, Grab and Shopee food), it turns out their daily income is quite large, it can be more than 100 thousand. You can even get quite large bonuses/tips from customers too. The working hours are also very flexible, for example when you come home from class in the afternoon, after that you can immediately continue towing from the campus point, just activate the motorbike taxi application.
This part time job is very suitable for those of you who really want to find activities other than studying, and who are really bored with studying, as well as healing.
3. Open a Private Service
Do you feel you have expertise in the field of science? Well, you can open a private service, usually moments like this just come. Suddenly a friend chatted with us and said “Bro, can you help me teach this assignment?“If you get an offer like this, just take it and help a friend.
But remember, if the person asking for help is someone you don’t know very well, you can ask for a fee for private/consultation services, I also sometimes do this. There is nothing wrong with asking for payment for what we teach and the time spent.
For example, if you teach one time, 20-50 thousand is already worth it, even if the person who asks for help is understanding, usually we are also treated to drinks and snacks. It gets stuck if someone wants to do it instantly, usually we are told to do their job straight away plek without wanting to know the plot, just like that.
The term is called jockey services, first read what jockey services are
4. Selling snacks
There is still a lot of hype among young people for spicy snacks, such as basreng, macaroni, stick noodles, fried cireng, and the like. When I was in vocational school, I used to do this, so I made my own product of tempeh chips with several flavors, left them in the school canteen and apparently many people liked them.
The profit from selling snacks is very high, it can even be 100% of the capital, for example, for tempe chips with a portion of 100 grams, we can sell it for IDR 15,000 with a capital of only 4k. Luckily IDR 11,000, and just imagine if you could sell 5-10 pieces or more per day. Of course, profits will be higher.
But don’t just imagine the profits, because at that time I made the products myself, immediately after school I cooked, every week I cooked tempeh chips at least 3 times, so I was really tired (according to the results).
However, nowadays if you want to sell snacks, it seems like it will be easier, because I see that on the outskirts of city streets there are lots of snack shops where you can buy them at retail or wholesale prices. So, all you have to do is buy the ready-made ones, then add your own flavorings and your own packaging.
Then just market it.
5. Be a creative content creator
This is a type of side job but it can also be your main job. If you have a highly creative spirit and want to become an influencer, building a channel as early as possible is the right choice. There are lots of successful content creators starting from their school days.
For example, Kevin Angara, who is now a successful influencer, they started for fun making short comedy videos on Instagram. Moreover, now that there is TikTok, the opportunity to promote our work is easier.
There are many types of content creators, just adjust it to your passion, for example if you are good at design, focus on designing, if your hobby is photography then focus on that field.
Closing
Those are 5 side jobs that are suitable for students that you can try, actually there are still lots of types of side jobs out there that you can do. However, the above is an example that is commonly used by most students.