20 plus 12 Ways To Make Money As A Student (1)

I look back at my undergraduate days, and think “why didn’t I start a business back then”. I wish I knew some of the things you’re about to read now as an undergraduate. Who knows, I’d probably have blown by now (lol) …I’ll be sharing great business ideas for students in Nigeria with you – Ways to make money as a student

But, First, why should we earn as a student?

…In no specific order of importance

1. pocket money and impressing ourselves with our bank account
2. settling our unforeseen school issues like getting materials, photocopies, printings, etc
3. saving for an extracurricular e.g. hangout, party, get together, excursion, election campaigns, sports etc
4. easing the financial burden off our funders, financiers, sponsors, and parents
5. maintaining relationships …siblings/family, girlfriend/boyfriend, fiancée/fiancé, and spouse/children (hehehe)
6. saving to invest or start another business
7. saving to attend conferences, short courses, and extra trainings
8. saving to do projects

For the record, as much as these are ways to make money as a student, there is no one size fits all approach in here, as different ideas applies to different people. Your schedule and availability would determine which business/self-employment idea will work well for you. Let’s go

1. Printing:There is no student on campus and hostels who doesn’t print. All you need is your room, a cheap printer with easy refillable ink cartridge, and your laptop, and you’re good to go. If you like, you can choose to do typing for them too, you’ll get your money.
2. Online Registrations: See all those data that you subscribe to, how about you make some cash from it. Help do admission registrations, NYSC registrations, scholarship applications, school fees payments, etc. You’ll make your money especially in first semester when new students hit campus, and when NYSC application period approaches.
3. Bulk SMS Services: I cannot count the number of organizations and fellowships that sent me smses those days. I’m sure they patronized bulk sms service providers. You can be one.
4. Web Design/Development: My friend back then learnt web-designing, and when he started getting clients and making money, some of us envied him. I know some others who got motivated to go learn web designing. And these days, it has become easy to learn, and the market is ever available. Organizations, fellowships, departments, even shops and personalities on campus. You can also design a blog for anyone.
5. Organizing Tutorial Classes: You can make money from organizing tutorial, solving past questions, and selling materials at the tutorials. In my 100level days, we had two guys back then, “Leo” and “BikerMan”, I can’t remember the other guy’s name. These guys would come, take us difficult courses, especially Chemistry 157, even do all-night tutorials, and of cos, for cheap rate, as low as 100Naira, and we would attend. So, you could do the same.
6. Home Tutoring: There are staff and parents within the university community who usually require the services of home tutors for their kids. Abeeb and Femi are good at excellent at tutoring. Usually, they charge these parents on an hourly basis. And from them, I learnt that as a tutor, long as you can work out a schedule for you and them, you are good to go.
7. Graphic Design: There is a steady market available for you if you are good with graphics designing applications especially Photoshop and Coreldraw. Every department and fellowship, even people with political ambitions that require your services. The better you are, the higher your chances of getting more clients and more money.
8. Cake Making, Catering, Event Planning, and Decorations: I won’t forget those memorable dinners, the beautiful halls, and 100-course meals, lol. Most were contracted out to students, who are very good at these things. If you have the skill, you’d surely be sought-after. Cake-making is also one of the most lucrative, especially for females, although, some guys do it (I know of one). You don’t need too much to start a cake making business (visit this link for more)
9. DJ services: DJ Watson and DJ Lobitz, these guys rocked every party on campus, back-to-back, with their laptops, disc jockeys, and speakers (only God knows where they get them from). Ask them for any music, they have it. That’s like the only thing you find on their laptops. You too can choose to make a business out of it if you’re willing to give the sacrifice it requires, and also get the DJ application on your laptop
10. MC / Comedian: As long as you’re funny and can talk, you can do this. Try with small birthday parties, and hangouts, and you would be considered for the bigger stages. A lot of MCs and comedians started this way. Demo_pumpin is a typical example.
11. Doing Assignments: I heard there are people who can pay any amount to anyone who is willing to help them do their assignments. I dunno them, but from my freelance writing career, I’m sure they exist, it takes you being smart to figure who they are. Make some money out of them dear.
12. Photography: This is the rave of the moment. Just get one dope digital camera, and know how to use photoshop to edit the roughness out of a person’s face, and you’re a chairman. Students will look for you anywhere. You can also take passports and jump into events on campus. Make sure you keep building your portfolio though. I’ve got my friends Demola and Steven on this.
13. House Agent: I met a guy who does this, and I was surprised at the amount he has made from it. I had no option but to pen it down. He just goes to have a collection of vacant houses in neighbouring communities around school, then he advertises his agency on the university’s Students’ Union facebook page that has virtually every student on it, 70% of who don’t reside on campus.

These are great ways to make money as a student. However, I’ll continue the second part soon as this would be the end of part one. To read “Ways to make money as a student 2”, click this link.

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