Are you a student struggling to survive on your pocket money? You are not alone. Students across the world can relate to this issue. But what if you could break free from the bounds of pocket money, and earn money to save and spend on the things you like, a trip, some exciting gadgets, and much more!

Many students have this misunderstanding that they need to spend a lot of time and money to do something that can help them make money. Let’s give you a pleasant surprise!

YOU CAN MAKE GOOD MONEY, LEARN ESSENTIAL SKILLS, AND EHANCE YOUR CV BY INVESTING LITTLE TO NO MONEY!

What is a side hustle?

A side hustle is an activity that you do in addition to your job, or studies. This activity helps you earn money that you can save, invest, use as pocket money, and fulfils other such requirements.

Do not wait anymore, and know about the 11 best side hustles you can do as a Pakistani student, and earn good money,

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1. Prompt Engineering

Prompt engineering is the art of crafting compelling prompts to enter into generative AI, and achieve the most optimal outputs in the form of content. Prompt engineering is a highly demanded skill that helps generate different kinds of audio, visual, and graphical content for a wide range of platforms.

Prompt engineering does not need any particular training. It would demand that you have the following skills,

1. Imaginative thinking

2. Analytical mindset

3. High creativity

4. Command on English language

2. Word Press

Word press is an opensource content management system (CMS), used by numerous websites and bloggers to manage their sites and maintain an online presence. A great number of websites across the world are being powered by wordpress.

Many brands and businesses require people to manage their websites efficiently. That is where you come in. You can learn to update, customize, and streamline data according to an organization’s demand.

In order to learn word press you only need a 4 to 5 days training, and then, you’re good to go.

3. Virtual Assistance

If you have a good command on English language, with very good communication skills, virtual assistance is an ideal side hustle for you. As a virtual assistant you will be handling some of the managerial tasks for an organization using your computer. These may include but are not limited to email handling, making appointments, giving replies, making bookings etc.

1. In order to become a virtual assistant, you need,

2. Strong skills on google workspace

3. Basic skills on Canva

4. Knowledge regarding project management

Learning these skills do not require any monetary investment. You can easily learn all this in about two weeks, and then you can start practicing virtual assistance.

4.Tutoring

As a Pakistani student, tutoring can help you earn good money consistently. All you need to do is master your skills and expertise at a subject or two. Then you can tutor students from matriculation, FSc, A levels, and O levels. At higher secondary levels, tutoring may give you greater rewards.

You can pursue tutoring not only by going to the students, or forming your own tutoring space, but also online, through the comfort of your home!

You can earn more than PKR 30k by doing giving tuitions as a side hustle.

5.Content Writing

Content writing is a very popular side hustle. Across the internet you come across a wide range of content. Someone is behind the preparation and presentation of this content. Content writers are crucial members of this crew.

As a content writer you could be writing blogs, handling social media posts, writing descriptions for products and services, writing content for websites, and much more. In order to become a good content writer, you need,

1. A very good command on English language

2. Understanding of search engine optimization (SEO)

3. Knowledge of language styles used across different platforms on social media and google

4. A creative mindset

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6.Social Media Management

Social media management is a very popular skill amongst Gen Z! A lot of students find social media fascinating, and learn to manage it. In order to be a good social media manager you should know of the following,

Understanding of the algorithms of all major social media platforms that include YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and any others you may need to use.

1. SEO

2. Creative and analytical thinking

3. Understanding of marketing

4. Attention towards the trending items of this industry

5. Tailoring of content according to the organizations vision and values

Are you a business/ social science major? You must check out 'How can BBA students start earning from first semester?'

7.Video Editing and Photography

Many students do video editing and photography as a hobby, or to enhance their social media accounts. Did you know, you could use all that time to practice the same hobby and earn money?

In order to pursue these things, you will need to invest in a camera and learn different editing platforms. In the next step you will need to build a profile. For this you can cover events for family and different organizations for free. Once you have done a few events like that you will have adequate samples of your work to show your employers.

These are relatively time consuming tasks. However, you can still manage them according to the time you can easily give. You can cover one event on a weekend, and spend the week finalizing it. This will help you earn good sums of money as a side hustle.

8. Video Editing

Some students can find it harder to do photography and shoot videos themselves. A similar side hustle for them is video editing. As a video editor you will get the raw content for videos. You will have to compile a finished product using this content by video editing.

For video editing you should,

1. Have a laptop

2. Download editing platforms like filmora, capcut etc

3. Practice on these platforms yourself to build a profile

4. Use your profile, to impress employers and get a job!

9. Data Entry

Organizations struggle a lot with data entry as the workplace environment is getting increasingly digitized. To solve this issue, they outsource data entry tasks. Students can easily get these jobs part time and do them from the comfort of their homes.

In order to do data entry jobs you need,

1. Accuracy

2. Attention to detail

3. Time management

4. Typing speed

10. Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

SEO is a slightly difficult side hustle, that may require a little more time. However, it is one of the highest paying ones. For effectively managing SEO, you should know the trending and recommended key words, have a grip on google search trends, and learn techniques to make your desired pages appear in the top google searches on the first page.

You must understand that SEO is not only about google, in fact you will need to optimize your social media posts as well.

In order to learn SEO, you will have to spend some time reading articles, and watching videos online. Once you are able to master SEO, you will be able to satisfy your employers, and earn good money to sustain yourself.

11. Graphic Designing

Many students assume graphic designing is a very simple and easy task. However, it is important to understand that only those who have an eye for arts, and design will be able to excel at it. You need to have an artistic aptitude, if you wish to stand out of a large sum of graphic designers.

In order to learn graphic designing, you should learn design software like,

1. Adobe photoshop

2. Canva

3. Prezi

How to Start Earning through Side Hustles?

If you wish to start earning through your side hustles, you should know of various routes. These include,

1. Free lance opportunities

2. Organizations close to where you live

3. Setting up your own small venture through social media

If you are able to understand how you can make your profile, create sample of your work to show your employers, and give 2 to 3 hours of your day dedicatedly to these side hustles you will be able to maintain good sums of money each month to sustain yourself.

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If you are confused regarding how to learn, or start a part time activity in any of the above-mentioned categories, feel free to contact us for more info and guidance. Best of luck!

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