What did you do for money in college?

Write for Seeking Alpha. It sucks that the pay checks are quarterly, but if you only write about popular stocks you can easily average over $25/hr. Just keep the AAPL and GOOG articles flowing. (Pay is based on page views.) If it gets published at the right time of day you might even make more. I once made $286 from a 1000 word article on AAPL.

Tutored at the student union. Pay is lousy, but time is flexible, get to meet new people, and teaching material really nails it down in your head.

Tutored for Econ classes and worked for the language center on campus.

Interned at relevant firms and worked on weekends.

Tele-fundraiser for my uni's alumni call center. Basically rang up anyone with any remote connection to the uni and begged for $$$$. Job SUCKED.

bunch of work-study jobs.

Interning at a firm this coming fall.

I know a fair amount of people who work in pharmacudicals who do make an alright amount

Picked up my $1300 check ($400 grant / $900 loan) that I receive from the government each month for studying.

Worked as sales person in a nearby clothing store (it probably costed me more in time and transport than I actually made)... modelled a bit, but lack of genuine interest meant little progress (i.e showing up to auditions with 500+ people in the que)... since up against people who would be injected with a deadly disease for a gig. In retrospect the people who made the most decent cash (assuming thats the point; rather than relevant experience) were those who were waitors/waitresses at busy restuarants.

Weird, weird shit man.

I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned so far, but definitely one of the most popular choices for students are to work in bars or catering, did so myself. Speaking from my experience you get shifts in the evening or more rarely during the day if that suits your timetable, plus everything is quite flexible, you can pick up more shifts if you have more time or get out of your own shifts if something comes up (obviously this depends on the management of each establishment, but usually people are reasonable). Just walk around your city and ask around in different restaurants and bars for openings.

MissNG:

since up against people who would be injected with a deadly disease for a gig.

This. Welcome to modeling.

Got a gig as an undergrad TA my freshman spring and never looked back. Involves occaisonally holding office hours, but mostly grading papers on my own schedule. Pay for UG TAs ranged at my school anywhere from $12-20/hour for usually 10-12 hours a week. You can work up to 20 hours, so you can get another one.

Easiest way to get it is to do well in a class and then talk to the professor before the next semester starts. It beats all the work study/work in a cafe jobs by a mile.

i would highly recommend bartending if your school has a decent bar scene. you can make a lot of dough especially when drunk kids accidently add extra 0s to their tip

online poker. supported going out, food, dating, and unpaid internship. best thing ever. also still on my resume even though I haven't played in years since I can write made $X.

i think my ex was extremely mad/jealous of me since everyone else she knew was either mooching off their parents or working at like the school cafeteria to pay for entertainment whereas I was just screwin around playing cards.

Stuff I can't say here

waiter/bartender at restaurant

CAD-ing, machining, freelance consulting. $45-75/hour. Oh and minimum wage doing research in labs...

Paypaling myself with credit cards. Selling thrift shop items on ebay

Tutored and participated in psychology experiments

Used money saved up from working in high school to open a brokerage account and trade

Y'all had to work in college? Damn your lives must have sucked.

heister:

Y'all had to work in college? Damn your lives must have sucked.

Prostituting yourself still counts as work, bro

I call my mom and tell her to put more money in my bank account

As stated above, catering is extremely flexible so it is often preferred.

tutoring + doing budget stuff for a department in school + managing the business side of school newspaper buying and selling items on amazon ebay craiglist jailbreaking/unlocking phones

worn out everyday but can't complain about the money inflow

Signing up for different experiments from the Psych or Sociology or various science departments at your University. easy $30-$100 in an hour and you do pretty cool/unique things.

photographed at high school dances a few times per month, $27/hr (typically pulled in $200/night), loved the job, wish I could still do it on the side.

my brother was a photographer for the company and got me into it as a helper (posing the couples, working the cash table) when I was a sophomore in hs

I "donated" life saving plasma for a nominal fee. You get $25 bucks a pop, can go twice a week, plus if you go out drinking right afterwards, you get drunk pretty quick. You spend the whole time reading or watching movies, and you're making a difference (some would say i'm a hero).

Only downside is it's about 50% college kids and 50% homeless people. Either way, you're both there doing it for the booze money.

AndyLouis:

photographed at high school dances a few times per month, $27/hr (typically pulled in $200/night), loved the job, wish I could still do it on the side.

my brother was a photographer for the company and got me into it as a helper (posing the couples, working the cash table) when I was a sophomore in hs

"That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age."

sold my organs

smartmoney27:

sold my organs

you only gotta sell one, honey

i go to goodwill and the salvation army and purchase old designer shirts (armani, ysl, RL purple label) for like $4 and then resell them on ebay for anywhere from $25-120. not a bad return, but a lot of the times its hit or miss on the selection.

year round interning

nothing good haha, glad i made it out in one piece.

Find and tutor your own group of students/peers, especially for the quantitative classes. It was easy for me to find clients since my background was/is in applied math/stats and there were many kids who regularly needed outside help in the said areas. I was charging $30-40 an hour per person in case you are wondering.

Ordered mobile phones from China, sold them on the advertising website, then sold on ebay, then found a guy from Germany and traded with him (that was quite profitable), sold flowers on the street. Tried to start a website to sell wholesale branded electronics, failed. Worked on the construction site during summer, next summer went to London to work in construction and cleaning. Tried to start a group buying website(Groupon), failed. Translated texts/website/mobile apps from English to Russian. Oh and ofcourse called my mom and said that i ate the last cockroach at campus so i need more money.

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I've landed a part time job 6am to 12pm doing data entry like stuff. Able to fancy it up as Data Analysis stuff. Get $15 an hour in Texas so it goes decently well. Then because of my school scholarship, extra 10k a year.

I'm working on running a part time entrepreneurial consulting company because of all the small businesses here.

Fixed computers.

Freshman year: Taught Boy Scouts at after-school programs around the city. Summer: Worked at a restaurant.

Sophomore year: Tutored Economics Summer: Worked in campus IT purchasing.

Junior year: Worked as a TA for operations management and worked in campus IT purchasing. Summer: Interned at the company I currently work for.

Senior year: Worked as a TA for operations management and interned at a nonprofit in my city.

NL Texas Hold'em.

I worked jobs that people would pay me to do.

I won't go into details cause I am in college.

Basically brought seriously underpriced items off ebay using the pay me later option. Resell it on craigslist for a much higher price in less than a month. Never made less than 25% on a deal.

I should call myself a market maker LOL

It says something that no one on here is saying they made money trading back then. Probably worth pondering for all of the aspiring Ken Griffins out there.

I worked as a Valet, They always saw how bright I was so they tipped the living shit out of me.

Hooked on LEAPS:

Write for Seeking Alpha. It sucks that the pay checks are quarterly, but if you only write about popular stocks you can easily average over $25/hr. Just keep the AAPL and GOOG articles flowing. (Pay is based on page views.) If it gets published at the right time of day you might even make more. I once made $286 from a 1000 word article on AAPL.

Cool Stuff! +SB and PMed you

I did odd jobs/entry level jobs just to make sure I could get real world experience and leverage stories/skills at interviews. Just take up a decent job that won't drain you out preferably a professional environment. Work very hard with whatever job and learn as much as you can. Since I have had many jobs in college it is easy to relate to something with the real world experiences and interviewers and co-workers love it. See if your school has a career database/ on or off campus jobs. good luck

1. I had a work study job for all 4 years that I would make 50-100 bucks a week from.

2. Summer jobs.

3. Parents dropping a hundred bucks in my checking account from time to time (they usually just did it, I generally didn't ask for money).

My expenses were very low. $20-30 a week on going out to eat on Fri or Sat night, plus an average of 0-20 a week on other misc. expenses.

1. Food service at a froyo shop... sure beat working fast food
2. Tutoring for econ classes
3. Random Craigslist gigs ranging from modeling to catering to re-installing computers
4. Freelance graphic design firm
5. The occasional check from the parents to help with rent

If you go to a school with lots of research happening going in for random psych studies can be an easy way to pick up beer money. It can be irregular but it usually amounts to playing a computer game for half an hour or looking at pictures and responding and you walk out with 10 to 30 bucks. Might not be best if you need to make a ton but it's nice if you don't want to make much of a commitment.

Connecticut Yankee:

I "donated" life saving plasma for a nominal fee. You get $25 bucks a pop, can go twice a week, plus if you go out drinking right afterwards, you get drunk pretty quick. You spend the whole time reading or watching movies, and you're making a difference (some would say i'm a hero).

Only downside is it's about 50% college kids and 50% homeless people. Either way, you're both there doing it for the booze money.

I know people with more vaccinations that would get anywhere from $50-70 for this and they would study while they did it.

Personally, I played poker.

SilvioBerlusconi:

Tele-fundraiser for my uni's alumni call center. Basically rang up anyone with any remote connection to the uni and begged for $$$$. Job SUCKED.

I did the same thing. Such a terrible job. Still got paid the same whether someone donated $25 or $5,000.

chicandtoughness:

1. Food service at a froyo shop... sure beat working fast food
2. Tutoring for econ classes
3. Random Craigslist gigs ranging from modeling to catering to re-installing computers
4. Freelance graphic design firm
5. The occasional check from the parents to help with rent

Craigslist modeling? Sounds sketchy.

Work study and paid internships did it for me.

TA, super easy work and can fudge hours if you clock in for grading papers

Playing music in bars or at events. super easy money