Side hustles for international students in Canada and Europe
As a students there are endless use of things in exchange for monetary value, As an international student your options to make money are very limited.
It might not be in vogue to work your way through school, and yet we have some famous names. For example – Elon musk CEO of Tesla and SpaceX held multiple jobs including cleaning boilers and cutting logs, to support himself during his time at the University of Pennsylvania, or is it Michelle Obama that worked part-time jobs to sponsor her love for learning.
Thank God for the advent of the Internet, It has opened doors to all of opportunity especially for students. During the late 1990’s, the internet was still in its early stages, and the job market for international students was quite different from what it is today. The Common was to make money as an international students at that time includes but not limited to: On-campus jobs, retail work, tutoring, babysitting and so much more.
Luckily, the work options for students included those of foreign nationality have is much wider and far ranging. In any sense of the word, it’s not limited to the four walls of a building any more but most are still neglected for example as an affiliate marketer you could easily be making up to $50 per/hr. depending totally on your willingness to work. They might not make you the next millionaire but they do a fair job of getting you paid.
You’d notice in our list here, we didn’t go into much details. That is because the idea isn’t to tell you in specifics what to do, you’re a student after all you can figure it out on your own. but because we care about our readers. We will be writing a few guides to help get you started in some of these side hustles. Without further ado
Here they are:
- Start a blog
- Start a YouTube channel
- Become a virtual assistant
- Social Media manager
- Become a cultural consultant
- Freelance writing
- Freelance editing
- Offer African cooking classes
- Become a translator
- Transcribe audio or video recording
- Content writer
- Copy writer
- Graphic design
- Data entry
- Virtual assistant
- Teaching online
- Selling online courses.
- Affiliate Marketing
- Researcher Assistant
- Pet Sitting
- Ghost Shopper
- Taking Online Surveys especially those for particular demography you fit into
- Volunteer to be a participant in Research studies
- And so much more….
These are just a few in hundreds of creative ways student both international and the locals are using to sustain themselves in school and beyond. So get cracking.
