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Show me the money<br />
Story by Kristin Demorest, Funk Editor<br />
Design by Kristin Demorest and Bailey Newhouse, Assisstant Funk Editor<br />
Remember when you were a kid, and everyone<br />
told you about how broke you would<br />
be in college? They told you all about how<br />
you’d be recycling all your dirty clothes to<br />
save quarters and eating Ramen noodles every<br />
day (but most of us like Ramen Noodles as<br />
kids right?). You probably thought to yourself<br />
how silly that sounded, because, why wouldn’t<br />
they just get a job if they needed money?<br />
The solution seemed simple. However, now<br />
that you’re in college, you probably realize that<br />
solution isn’t so simple. Between balancing your<br />
schoolwork, your social life, sleep, volunteering,<br />
and the one million other things you have to do<br />
on a daily basis, you realize you barely have time<br />
to shower daily- let alone work a part time job.<br />
Some students can even throw a part-time job in<br />
there, but the ones who do usually have bills on<br />
bills on bills. They usually feel just as broke as all<br />
the other students! So, as a college student, how<br />
are you supposed to thrive? (By thrive, I mean<br />
buy deodorant and occasionally put gas in your<br />
car without begging your parents for money.)<br />
College students everywhere have resorted<br />
to doing things like donating your blood<br />
plasma as many times a year as you’re allowed,<br />
or simply living off of your pennies until<br />
the end of the semester. However, some students<br />
have it figured out. There are other ways<br />
you can make money while being a successful<br />
student that don’t involve being a medical<br />
experiment or eating Ramen Noodles<br />
for what seems like the rest of your life.<br />
Open an online store<br />
If you have ever bought products off of Ebay or Etsy,<br />
you understand how edasily someone can make money by<br />
selling things they mae by hand for profit through apps.<br />
Michael’s and other craft stores have jewelery kits, knitting<br />
and sewing kits and anything you would need to start your<br />
online empire.<br />
babysitting<br />
This one may take a little work at first, because you’ll<br />
have to get plugged into your community and get to know<br />
some people who need babysitters in your community if<br />
you’re not from the area. Get to know adults at your local<br />
church, volunteer locations and even your professors. These<br />
are all people who probably have small children and would<br />
be dying for a night out. Babysitting is a great side job,<br />
because the schedule is very flexible. You aren’t on a set<br />
Pact and Viggle<br />
Pact is an app that awards you points redeemable for<br />
money by meeting fitness goals both in the gym and in the<br />
kitchen.<br />
Viggle is an app that when you listen to music or watch<br />
TV, you open the app and log what you are watching. Logging<br />
your activity gives you points that are redeemable for<br />
gift cards.<br />
schedule and times and dates can usually be negotiated.<br />
Also, if you’re babysitting late at night, once the children<br />
are asleep is prime time for you to work on homework.<br />
You’re getting paid to keep up with your studies while making<br />
sure the house doesn’t burn down. Another perk of<br />
babysitting is that you usually get paid more than minimum<br />
wage, and if you’re lucky, a meal is provided.<br />
SELL YOUR Stuff<br />
Sell your old stuff ! If you’re like the majority of students,<br />
you probably brought a lot of things with you to<br />
college that you never use, just in case you needed it.<br />
But you don’t. The internet market is alive and thriving<br />
and it’s easier to sell your stuff online than ever before!<br />
Old clothes, textbooks, calculators, room decorations,<br />
and so much more that you have just lying around can<br />
be liquidated easily. Apps like Mercari, Letgo, and even<br />
Ebay make it easy to post things you want to sell, and<br />
most of them pay for shipping for you. You can even do<br />
it in person at places like Plato’s Closet, or if you really<br />
want to sell your things free-lance, start up an Instagram<br />
or Facebook page. It’s a good way to sell locally<br />
and usually appeals to people on college campuses who<br />
are too broke to go out and actually shop at the mall.<br />
Plus, the next time your mom visits your dorm room,<br />
she will be pleasantly surprised at all the “cleaning”<br />
you’ve done.<br />
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