{"id":2810,"date":"2017-12-20T16:29:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T16:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/?p=2810"},"modified":"2017-12-20T16:29:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T16:29:06","slug":"making-money-as-a-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/2017\/12\/20\/making-money-as-a-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Making money as a student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve done various things to make some cash on the side:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Private tutoring<\/li>\n<li>Turinglab\u00a0(Tutoring at imperial)<\/li>\n<li>Undergraduate teaching assistant<\/li>\n<li>Internships<\/li>\n<li>uTest<\/li>\n<li>UserTesting<\/li>\n<li>Blogging<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and for those keen students looking to make money on the side I&#8217;d definitely suggest private tutoring, UserTesting and uTest. If you haven&#8217;t heard of uTest, its a website where you test any app possible: games, payment, echo etc and based on your bug finding skills you get paid. Some test cases give you payment just for following the steps, even if you don&#8217;t find any bugs.<\/p>\n<p>UserTesting is basically talking about your opinion of a website for around 10-15 minutes, for 10 USD which is pretty good. However, it takes time to get invited to do those. UTA&#8217;s and other tutoring are good, but unless it&#8217;s private tutoring I&#8217;d suggest looking for other ways to get money. Of course, if you&#8217;re like me and enjoyed the module a lot, then definitely go become a UTA.<\/p>\n<p>The big punchers are internships. I chose bachelors when I entered Imperial, and decided to change to Masters half way &#8211; enabling me to be a penultimate student twice. Those keen on internships know many internships require penultimate status to join. Banks definitely pay the most and are easier to get into (think ~40,000 per year)\u00a0 whereas consultancy is much less (26k?). Other popular companies like Accenture, Bloomberg pay the same as banks.<\/p>\n<p>My top tip? Start early. Do those spring insights, as they usually offer an easy entrance into an internship, followed by a job. Plus you get paid. If you&#8217;re an international student like me, make sure you check the Tier 2 list of sponsors to make sure they can sponsor you after you graduate. No point in doing an internship and finding out they want to hire you, but can&#8217;t due to legal reasons. Most big companies on there. You can find the list <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/669670\/2017-12-20_Tier_2_5_Register_of_Sponsors.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of porfolio, you can always create your own website. It&#8217;s impressive to list on your CV, here&#8217;s\u00a0my website. I&#8217;m using github pages and bootstrap, you can find them here :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/louiskueh.com\/\">louiskueh.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/studentfinancetips.org\/\">studentfinancetips.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve done various things to make some cash on the side: Private tutoring Turinglab\u00a0(Tutoring at imperial) Undergraduate teaching assistant Internships uTest UserTesting Blogging and for those keen students looking to make money on the side I&#8217;d definitely suggest private tutoring, UserTesting and uTest. If you haven&#8217;t heard of uTest, its a website where you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2811,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions\/2811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}