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​Help Me! I’m Poor.

How YOU can make money in college

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​Help Me! I’m Poor.
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Being in college is rough for lots of reasons, the most difficult is probably the lack of financial support and increased amount of expenses. What's worse, it's hard to juggle typical jobs and your classes. Here are just some of the simple ways you can make money while you're still a college student.

Selling Yo’ Stuff!

You can sell literally anything on the web: books, old video games, even food. You can even make things and sell them on Etsy. You can explore sites like Ebay and Amazon, but you really can sell things from anywhere, and clear out your closet of things you no longer use or need. If you're really good at it, you can work on creating your own products to sell in bulk. It's easier now than ever to produce your own merchandise to sell and you can bulk up your social media presence to make it happen.

Tutoring

If you're in college, you probably are smart enough to be a tutor. Whether it's for college students in a class you already took or younger kids, you can post flyers about anywhere advertising your prowess and your desire to get paid for said prowess. Are you an expert at managerial accounting? Cover the campus with flyers advertising your skills and wait for the calls to come in. Also, by this logic, you can sell any service that you can do well.

Uber

If you're lucky enough to have a car, you can offer your services on the weekends, especially if you camp out near the bars and bring partiers back home after crazy Friday and Saturday nights out. Also, you have the ability to rack up good ratings, and hopefully, get more customers, maybe even repeat customers. What's more, all you need is a car and you can rake in some dough.

Get A Job!

Well, duh. Of course, a semi-easy and very reliable way to make money in college is to take on a part-time job. What are the best places for a college student to work, though? If you work for your college campus, you’ll likely have flexible hours that work with your class schedule. Also, every college and university has job postings for students, and every school needs people to work at the bookstore, the dining hall and different departments. You might be lucky enough to get paid to sit at a desk and do homework like me!

Odyssey

Well, of course, there was going to be a plug for Odyssey. What better way to make money than do what you already like to do anyways: read and write for Odyssey. While there’s not a ton of money here for writing, every dollar helps. What’s more, the harder you work, the more money you can make. Also, you’re writing and working for a pretty important news outlet on the cusp of great things. Not every “money making venture” entails making big bucks right away. Of course, if you're interested in this avenue, you can always apply.

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