51 Side Jobs for College Students

Here is the list of 51 side jobs for college students. I hope you’ll find the one you have been waiting on.

We live where most South Florida universities are located. Naturally, fast-food chains and restaurants are full of student employees.

On one such evening, I was taking out a pizza from Domino. I asked the lady about her college. She smiled at me and told me about her college and major.

She will work there for a few more semesters. Now that you landed on this page. Get riveted and prepare for information overload! If you get benefited, leave a comment below.

That incident generated the idea for writing this article. Previously we posted some unconventional ways of earning money in college. Here’s a comprehensive post about various ways you can earn money while getting your college degree.

When students go to schooling, they should supplement their income with part-time income from available jobs to lessen their student loan debt burden.

The part-time job not only serves as an additional, but it also serves to give the students this special experience that they need to employ when they finish their classwork and move into their first job.

As a student, the first thing you need to do is look at the workforce recruitment program. Talk to concerned authorities in your college and ask them to contact a WRP representative.

You must open a linked-in account and search for student jobs there.

The next best option for you would be to see projects posted on Thumbtack, then bid to do the job. We used Thumbtack for three services lately, house cleaning, TV wall mounting, and moving and packing service.

We got a bid from a group of students among others. Thumbtack is a quick way to earn occasional money, on a need basis.

Before we start, I want to tell you about a success story, it happened at the University of Boston. There was a girl named Valentina Monte, who had a part-time job at a Pizza place.

She was a social media addict. She approached her employers to take care of the Pizza business’s social media campaign.

She brought wonders for the chain. Soon big companies like HBO, P&G, etc hired her to do their social media campaigns.

Now Valentina is working for HBO on their social media team. If you want it bad, you will get it, students!

Related – 8 Ways to save money in College

Job resources for college students at a major corporation

• AT&T college career program
• American Express student jobs
• Amazon internship
• Exxon Mobil masters program
• Walmart University jobs
• Home Depot summer jobs
• BestBuy summer jobs

51 side jobs for college students

1) First, look out for an on-campus opportunity. The campus dining hall, libraries, and sports center might have a few openings still left. Have you checked the co-ops or the in-campus food joint? Are they hiring at the campus convenience store?

Cafeteria caterers, are they hiring? Landing a job on campus helps a student enormously when it comes to allocating time for jobs and studies.

2) Internet jobs 

The Internet is already a $200 B economy in the US alone. Only a handful of people are employed in the IT sector, compared to that.

You as a student can bridge the low end of the gap. Small businesses, bloggers, and online marketers need a helping hand in managing their online ventures. This is where a college student, with a laptop, comes in handy.

• Sign up on Fiverr and sell writing, website design, logo design, Internet research, or any other task you can do. Here’s my post on excellent gigs on Fiverr
• Open your profile on Elance and ODesk and offer the service you are good at. Upwork is also good for virtual assistant jobs.
• Sign up for paid-to-blog jobs and apply them to writing jobs. Search for blog jobs
• Write papers for students who struggle with studying or are buried under deadlines
• Sign up for hiremymom.com and apply for virtual assistant jobs. A virtual assistant job involves mostly manual data editing, document/email management, etc. (I do have two VAs working for me, one looks after this website)
• Go to searchtempst.com and search for writing gigs
• You can participate in OneClass class note-sharing geek. This is the place where students share their class notes and collectively get better at any subject. You’ll get handsome rewards for just sharing your class notes

Use all of these platforms to apply to 10 small jobs every day and I guarantee you will make between $200-$800 in your first month.

Maybe more! This will increase as you gain experience and start understanding what works and what doesn’t. You should have a PayPal account to accept online payments. You can cash out the PayPal amount to your checking account.

3) You could work as a Barista and earn perks of between $7 and $121 a day. A good place to start looking is the Starbucks program for college students.

4) Look for a computer store worker and work in most companies’ computer stores. Good examples of such companies include Apple stores, Google, and Nokia stores.

5) Use your hobby to generate income – You have a laptop at home, and you have a computer in the lab. You love surfing the net.

You love playing occasional games. You love to give an opinion about products. you’re perfect for doing all these in exchange for money.

Sign-up for the InboxDollars account and install their toolbar in your browser. You can earn between $10 – $15 a day with normal surfing that you do anyway.

6) Consider working as a bartender; Jobs that is often available for people able to work late till night. The job is good for students and will pay minimal wages and double depending on the bar.

7) Are you in NYC, NJ area, and, a good organizer, who gives attention to details? Sign up for AgentAnything, where busy people post projects only for students. Projects may include grocery shopping, pet grooming, lawn care, etc.

8) Be an actor or model – Some local theaters or businesses look for local actors and models. My sister-in-law registered herself with Back Stage.

She landed a few opportunities as she was an attractive Asian Indian many people were looking for, and. were very scarcely available.

If you are inclined to act, go for it! You never know what’s in store. Back Stage is the biggest source of such opportunities, including 1000 new leads every day across the US.

9) Pizza deliveryman – Flexible work schedule, less hectic work, the opportunity of tipped income. The best way to land this job is to visit your local store and ask for an opening.

10) Home painting and plumbing are good part-time jobs for plumbing students. It will give you the needed exposure and payment above the normal minimum wage.

11) Are you good at something which can be delivered quickly? has millions of buyers ready to buy from you. If you’re good at writing a poem or song or good at drawing a cartoon, offer it on Fiverr.

12) One of the ways is to post your resume to a specialist job site that only deals with students.  Students must follow a good graduate resume example.

13) Consider searching for a part-time project on RentAStudent, you might get a lucky break.

14) Start a blog; You know internet advertising is going to touch $50 B by 2017. I earn a pie of it through this blog. Some of the links here are affiliate links. If you signup or buy things following the links, I’ll earn a commission.

I earn on average $4,000 to $6,000 every month from this blog, with only 2 hours per day of devotion (I have a full-time job as IT Manager). Through affiliate sales and CPC ads from Google. You can also cheap if you have these three things in you.

1. Some money to invest
2. A passion for writing
3. Have the patience to wait more than 3 months before seeing your first income coming in

Here’s how to create your blog in 20 minutes under $20. Start blogging today in your spare time and earn some money on the side

15) Consider working as an online sales staff. Sites such as eBay, CafePress, and BuyMyTronics among others have options where you buy and sell stuff on their site.

16) Language translator/interpreter – Check your county authorities, if you are from a different country or you can understand and speak an uncommon language, you may be hired on a need basis whenever authorities need to talk to a refugee or an illegal immigrant or any foreign person on phone.

I can speak Bengali and Hindi, my wife is registered with our county and she gets call almost every month to be an interpreter.

17) Work as a Free Lancer for different clients who post their work on sites such as Elance, freelancers, and ezine and even associate content. One of the best opportunities for college students is to work as a freelance writer and be paid for every order.

These sites provide content for companies that want to market their products or even enlighten their consumers. Freelancing is a good way for busy students to add something to their resumes without any full-time commitment.

Related – Pick your degree as per your future career goal

18) If you know a second or a third language, most common with international students, you can be employed as an interpreter on a part-time basis. Look out for local job listings regularly.

20) One of the best opportunities for college students is to work as an intern in a local city council or clerk of the courts.

Check with cities within a certain distance of your school. Usually, these jobs are not advertised but you can certainly visit the city hall and ask around.

21) Most local audit or law firms will seek part-time students to work as temporary help, especially for data entry.

22) Work as a babysitter in your nearby home taking for your children as their mothers go to work. The task requires great passion to complete.

23) Online consulting is an appropriate job for students as they assist online clients with different problems in their areas of specialization.

24) Ushering in sporting events is a good part-time job for students, especially in events management and front office operations.

25) A book review is an online job you can take to assist book writers to understand the impact and effectiveness of their work.

26) Sign up with Survey Farms like Opinion Outpost or Pine Cone. and you will be able to participate in online surveys regarding new products and services.

Earn Cash and other rewards for your time. Although you’ll not earn loads of cash, you may cover your weekend expenditures easily. Here is a list of the best survey sites.

27) Take the job of a teacher. Check with your teachers or college employees if they need a private tutor for their children. Find a Tutor is a service where you can register.

28) As a part-time Bank cashier, you will handle financial transactions at the counter.

29) Work as a field researcher with scientific firms seeking to explore different aspects of their areas. For example, medical researchers.

30) Laboratory technician is a perfect part-time job for college students, especially in local clinics and high schools.

31) Working as a rescue worker trainer will help you impact your skills as a learner of disaster management.

32) Telephone Operator or call center agents. These days companies are either moving the call centers to cheaper countries or moving them back to American homes.

Students may get part-time jobs in such companies and work from their dorms/apartments. Here are the skills you need to become a call center agent.

33) Firefighting part-time workers will give you a chance to prepare the rescuers and plan all aspects of disaster recovery.

34) If you are taking courses in music, you could work as a part-time guitar or piano trainer in a local academy.

35) Work as a part-time photographer with different companies that report about nature and even events.

36) As an art student, you can work as a drawing specialist with a local press such as a newspaper or online magazine.

37) Work in different web design firms as a web designer. Many of them take tasks from clients and you design the sites.

38) Choose to work as a swim lessons instructor in the local gym club or restaurant.

39) End-of-day staff is a good part-time job where you collaborate with teachers in maintaining cleanliness and other tasks after class. I know a Ph.D. student who earns a little on the side by teaching a professor’s son.

40) As a sales part-time associate, you will be required to handle all sales work and perhaps even enter it into the company system.

41) As a part-time housekeeper, you will be responsible for the cleanliness and operations of guest rooms.

42) Work as a customer care representative in a local hotel to receive clients and affirm their details.

43) As a direct support professional in a hospital, you will assist people with mental disabilities in health facilities.

44) Consider working as a moving associate and working for 10-25 hours per week in loading units.

45) You could work as a landscape laborer in designing flower beds and lawns in homes and institutions.

46) General warehouse laborer. You will work on tasks like loading trucks and packing different products.

47) Math or English tutor. This position involves training your children and international students in math or English on a part-time basis.

48) Banquet staff. You will work in arranging flowers in hotels, wedding rooms, and other events regions. The jobs are many, especially in summer.

49) Admission assistant in a local college or school is a perfect task during news students’ entries, events, and even out-of-class lessons.

50) Being A juvenile counselor is a perfect task for psychology students. The tasks are located in correctional facilities.

If you’re a student, one of the ideas could fit your situation. Don’t hesitate, and take up a job. A few hours a day most students can spend away from their studies.

Now, what about the 51st option? That is to create your start-up!

Wonder how behemoths like Microsoft, Apple, or Facebook were formed? Stop looking for jobs and create something on your own.

That bright idea you have… don’t hesitate, act today. Take a risk and jump on. Technology and science evolve around new ideas and entrepreneurship.

It doesn’t have to be a tech idea. You may be good at design – you may start your fashion boutique.

You may be a master craftsman or a good writer; Write your first book while still at college, and sell it online. Create a bright future for yourself and the society you live in.

In case you landed on this page because you’re looking for a financing option, your immediate first step would be to secure the funding.

Not jumping on the job bandwagon. Many of the readers asked me how they’d get the best financing for their education. I always tell them to shop for loans, if grants and scholarships are either not sufficient or not available.

After all, you can think of a side job only after you have secured the money to get admission, right?

March on students!