I am a student and would want to do something productive and earn some pocket money whilst studying. What are the opportunities available online where in i can work from anywhere from my computer and ear a handful of amount to bear my school expenses.

Hi Zakir,

I don't know if you have any specialization but I would advise you to try to look for an activity that ties in to your job, do you want to become a software engineer? Try to look for someone who needs help with coding, you want to become a photographer? Try to take pictures for someone, in terms of skills it will be a great opportunity to learn and hopefully, it will allow you to make some money too.

Once you've figured out what you want to do, you'll have to start promoting your skills, go online and offer your services, just google the service you are looking for and hopefully, someone will answer.

Hope that helps a bit :)
Julien

Hi Zakir,

I would also add that you should take stock of what skills you have or would like to develop. There is a lot of work that you can do remotely from your computer, ranging from projects and tasks that require very few skills and pay very little (like you can find on Amazon Mechanical Turk (https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome) to tasks that require a lot of skills, like graphic design or software development, that you can find on freelance sites like UpWork (https://www.upwork.com/i/howitworks/freelancer/), Elance, Freelancer, 99designs, etc.

It might be useful to spend a little time browsing the projects on these sites, so that you can see what's available, what you are interested in working on, and what skills are required for those projects. Just a thought.

Teg