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You are here: Home / Featured / Making Quick Money: 5 Methods for Students to Raise Some Cash Fast

Making Quick Money: 5 Methods for Students to Raise Some Cash Fast

February 21, 2019 by Julie Leave a Comment

Being a student is harder than people often realise, especially when you do not come from a particularly affluent family or if you want to make your own ends meet, without seeking help from your parents. You have to keep the grades up in order to ensure a better future for yourself while earning some cash on the side to take care of your own needs. Hoping to make matters a little easier, here are five proven methods to raise money for students that are not just effective, but relatively quick too.

Write Content Online

There is a constant and unending need for fresh online content and there aren’t enough writers doing it full-time to saturate the market yet. This creates the perfect opportunities for students to make some extra cash every week through writing content. In order to land good writing gigs, you will need to be at least a decent writer though and it is preferable if you stick to specific subjects such as the ones you are studying or have studied before. Just in case you are proficient in a few other languages such as Spanish, German and French in addition to English, you can expect to earn a pretty decent amount from online writing and translation jobs.

Drive with Uber

Uber drivers make quite a bit of money and students in the UK often sign up as part-time Uber drivers to make their extra cash. In order to sign up with Uber, be sure that you meet the following criterions.

  • You need to be 21-years or older
  • You will require a valid UK driving license
  • You will need to have a permit to work in the United Kingdom

To find out more about how you can sign up with Uber in the UK as a student, check out this article.

Scrap Your Car

If the car you own has seen better days and you are likely going to need a better car soon anyway, it is time to scrap that car for cash. The Scrap Car Network makes scrapping your car super easy because you can get instant quotes for your vehicle right from their website. Head over to their site, enter the number plate and your postcode to get an instant cash quote on how much you are likely to get by scrapping that old car. They provide their services all across the United Kingdom, so once you enter the details and agree to what they are offering, they will even pick up the car from its parking spot, free of charge. When you are in need of quick and urgent cash, this could very well be the fastest way to get it.

Put that Camera to Use

If you are more than just a selfie enthusiast and take your photography seriously enough, there is seldom a shortage for photography jobs these days, as long as the student has at least a basic idea of what he/she is doing. Of course, this doesn’t apply to just everyone because you will need a basic understanding of camerawork, but you would be surprised how fast naturals pick up on the necessary basics by joining a short course. Even if you do not have the professional knowledge or experience to land a gig, stock photo sites are always on the lookout for quality photographs and pay a decent amount of money to amateur photographers for relevant clicks.

Tutor Others

If you are good at your studies, tutoring others can be an excellent way to earn money and a lot of people do it full-time as well. In fact, you don’t necessarily have to be good in class because all you need is a skill that others want to learn, and you are set. This could be anything from popular musical instruments like the guitar and the piano, to singing classes and teaching English to non-native students. On the flip side, if you know any other popular languages aside from English, you will probably find an even wider range of students. Spanish, French, Mandarin, and German are particularly in high demand at the moment.

These five methods should be enough to take care of most quick cash need that you may have, but just in case these are not enough, do not be shy to ask for help from your parents or guardians if you really need it. You can always pay them back later and since you are still in school/college, it isn’t anything to worry too much over either, as long as you do pay them back when you are able to. However, if the money required is a significant enough amount, it might be worth reconsidering whether or not the cause justifies the investment.

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