Summer Jobs for College Students-Thinking Outside the Retail Box

Welcome Home! It has been a tough year but you have survived. Now you need a summer job and are doing the mall application circuit. In spite of the fact that you are filling in all the lines completely and are dressing as if the interview could happen on the spot nothing is happening. Things are getting desperate. It is time to think outside the Retail Box.

You have just spent a year in college cramming your head full of info that you haven't a clue as to how to use. Here are a few ideas on how to earn some money from all that stuff.

Post ads in your local penny saver newspapers offering your services as a tutor for Elementary or High School Students. Also check out the local Homeschool Association. Those kids are basically in school all day everyday of the year and their parents don't always have all of the knowledge to fill in certain curriculum requirements. Your college major may provide just what they are looking for and supplying that info could prove to be the perfect summer job.

As a student, you have spent a year or more writing Term papers and Essays that you probably won't be able to reuse. Before you delete them, check out some of the websites that buy this kind of work. Some offer cash up front per paper and some pay by the quarter. Check out the sites carefully because there are a lot of scams out there.

Rework those term papers into articles for sites like Associated Content. You might be sitting on some serious cash and not know it! You have already done most of the work as a student. Now it is time to earn some money for the Summer.

Buy stuff at yard sales and flea markets and flip them on ebay. Focus on things that you know the most about first. For example, you collect action figures and know that any of the original cast-metal Voltron characters are drool-worthy. Hunt those down, buy them at a fair price, list them on ebay and watch your paypal account grow!