ONLINE JOBS FOR TEENAGERS: FIVE EASY AND CONVENIENT JOBS THAT PAYS TEENAGERS
You are never too young to start making money for yourself, you’ve heard about rich kids that
make money online in legit ways. You too can start something online that will pay you and give
you financial freedom at a young age. Once you get it right at a young age(13 to 19) life will be
less difficult and achieving your other goals will not be so difficult. On any social media platforms
the world is your stage and it takes just one content to go viral online. Apart from going viral
online there are a lot of things you can do online to make yourself some cash.
Without wasting time let’s dive into the jobs you can do online as a teenager;
1. Freelance job:
sounds familiar? Of course it should. This is one of the most legit ways to
make money online and not so difficult too. Platforms like fiverr, flexjobs, simplyhired, upwork,
LinkedIn etc, there are lots of other platforms where you can do a freelancing job. All you need
to do is turn your skill(digital skill) into service and you should be able to convince your targeted
audience how you can provide solutions to their problems.
In a freelancing job you don’t have to go anywhere, instead you’d work from home. All you will
need is a strong internet connection and a browsing phone or even a computer or laptop, then
you’re good to go. Freelancing is also a per time job and it gives you full control over your
schedule. It means you can set a delivery time to deliver each job you do, although make sure
you don’t take too much time to deliver a job. Examples of services you can offer are graphic
designing, editing videos for YouTubers, Instagram TikTok or even Facebook, editing of photos,
helping entrepreneurs and business owners with social media marketing, transcriber translator
etc. There are lots of jobs you can do on freelancing platforms.
2. Content creator:
Writing is not the only way to create contents, you can record videos, you
create memes with photos too. Don’t get stuck with what to write. You can start creating content
on Instagram, Facebook, or tiktok once you’re thirteen. This is another cool way to make money
online and also have fun along the line. You can create entertaining or educational content
videos, depending on the one you are good at.
All you need is your smartphone, since you take videos with your smartphone and you are
already on this social media account. Why don’t You make some money from it? Although you
will need time to grow your social media accounts, you will need to be consistent and patient.
You need to have good content too, so as to have as many followers and likes as possible. To
make money from this platform you need to have a certain amount of followers and likes to get
your account monetized.
You can also sell your contents too.
3. Showcase your talent on social media:
Do you sing and compose so well? Do you draw
well? Or do you act so well? Create videos on whatever you are good at doing, even though it’s
talking, who knows? You could get an opportunity to be a host or even a presenter. Don’t hide
your talents, if you sing and compose songs well, create a social media for yourself. Do video
records of the songs you composed and even do covers of trending songs making, adding a
little bit of your vibe.
Whatever you are good at, never stop doing it. Keep practicing and improving your talents. You
never know who is watching, like I said earlier the world is your stage on social media and it
takes just one content to go viral. You need to be consistent, learn more things about what you
do, read about those that are doing great in your field, and learn from them. And never stop
believing in yourself and dreams.
4. Become an online tutor:
this is one the best ways to monetize your knowledge. Platform
like Teachable is where you can sell online courses. It enables you to create your own topic via
text or video and you get paid when people buy your course, although you’d need to pay little
fees.
You need to make sure you write or do videos on what you know well that you could teach
others, this is one secret to selling online courses. You could consider a hubby you are good at,
lots of people are willing to pay to get better at their hobbies, so your hobby could be the same
as theirs. This is one of the best ways to make money as teens because you get to choose your
course yourself, and it will be something that you’d do with minimum effort since it’s what you
like. It is also an opportunity to build a long term business for yourself. You can easily start with
a simple course then add other courses later, it’s a great way of creating passive income.
Examples of courses you can start with are martial arts, how to play some instruments—like
drums, guitar, piano etc, painting or drawing, how to use particular productive applications—like
photo editing or video editing apps etc.
5. Be a virtual assistant:
you can be a virtual assistant as a teenager, all you need to do is
learn verbal skills because you might need to answer phones for your clients, and it is not so
difficult to learn. Other tasks are scheduling meetings, organizing your clients calendar or
booking accommodations for traveling.
If you want to be a virtual assistant you have to have good organization skills and verbal skills
like I said earlier.