The need of students at school are enormous and keep increasing and before you know it that money you came to school with has all exhausted. Then you start looking for another relative or friend to help you. This cycle keep repeating itself every semester and many are forced to take up a poor standard of living while in campus.
A student Can generate some cash in school with a well thought out plan, with commitment and effective time management. Why suffer when you can help yourself? Despite the academic work, some time can be reserved for this purpose.
Below are some of the business a student can do on campus :
(1) Photocopying
This service is in high demand on campus. So you can get a photocopying machine and emoploy some one to work for you. You will be making some cash daily with little effort.
(2) Photography
while waste those free period especially weekends? with a camera and little training you can snap passport for fellow students and even other photographic services during the week ends.
(3)Organise Tutorials / home lessons.
As an intelligent student, you can teach junior students for money, this can be done few hours in a week. You can also engage in home lessons where you teach children at their home and you are payed by their parents montly. This can be done at your free time in the evening.
(4) blogging
This does not need much capital investment. With your Android phone and data your are good to go. You can even choose a niche that is related to your school work and it will be fun doing it! The truth is that you can make out time to write 2 or 3 post each week and before you know it Google adsence will be knocking at your adoor with some dollars.
(5) Call centre
This service is in high demand in the school campus because students always want to reach out to their families and friends. You can hire a sales girl to manage the business for you. Only ensure that you supervise her well to avoid "stories that touch". Yesoo, most of those salesgirl are thieves and can run your business down!
(6) Barbing Saloon
With the high population of people on campus, this business is lucrative. Just with a clipper you are good to go! You can even start it beside your hostel in the evening after class. Just charging a little lower price will get you more patronage. How about girls that can plait hair, this service can earn you some cool cash.
(6) Football viewing center
Students are great lovers of sports. Many of them are die hard supporters of foreign clubs. You can hear them shout, ''Up Man. U," Goners for life." and many others, in support for their team. They can spend their last cash to watch these matches. So getting a viewing center close by will be a gold mine. Most of these matches are played in the week ends so it won't affect your studies.
(7) Book shop
You can set up a small book shop. Sales of customized materials such as Id cards, surveniers etc can attract more patronage.
(8) Join the SUG Ha! ha! ha! I know you will be wondering, ''saying, what for?" Yesoo, the members of the SUG enjoy special privileges such as free meal, luxurious accommodations, some stipends and others. So if you have leadership qualities, this is the time to start developing it and start reaping from it.
Make your campus life enjoyable and not endurable, Put your skills to work!