Summer, the time when you’re happy to be out of school and chill all day. No stress of exams, it’s just you and your TV, until that gets boring too. Summer is the perfect time to learn a new skill and make some money out of it. Here are 7 useful things to learn this summer.
Blog- Earn with your stories [$100- $10,000 p.m]
If you haven’t started blogging, start now! It doesn’t cost you any time but it can help you earn great money. Don’t know where to start? https://blogging.org/ will give you the best tips. Your blog can also be used to promote any of the other projects you’ve been working on during the summer. Gone are the days of getting bored during your holidays, blogging will keep you entertained and help you develop a love for writing.
Check out: https://www.labnol.org/ (Indias top Digital & Tech Blog)
Learn and Earn
Learn Photoshop – Take up an online course from websites such as https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/tutorials.html or you can even make use of the innumerable YouTube tutorials https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRby92ZDFpk . Earn from Photoshop – Once you are a pro, you can offer your services to small businesses. Smaller businesses are happy to use a smaller graphic designer, as they cannot afford to pay a big graphic design company to create attractives ads.
Graphic designing – Once you Photoshop, it could be learned from Arena Animation, Aptech & book the same via www.studysid.com
Intern at a startup : [ Rs 5000-7000 p.m + great exposure ]
Interning at a startup gives you practical, transferable experience and enable you to observe the inner working of an entire company. The skills you learn at a startup are much more likely to be useful in the future.
How to start : You can become a Micro-entrepreneur at www.studysid.com to work on your networking skills and earn great money for it as well. You make Rs 40 per lead that you provide to them for a student looking for a coaching class.Mail on careers@studysid.com
Learn programming/coding : Its a tech world
Doing some freelance coding work during the summer is a great way to make some extra pocket-money. The internet is brimming with learning tools. Choose an online course to learn to code like a boss.
Learn about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine learning on Udemy, Coursera or simplilearn.
Check out : NIIT, Aptech computers via www.studysid.com
Be the next MasterChef
Always wanted to be a participant on MasterChef? Well, good for you, summer is the time to pick up a spatula and learn to whip up your own meal. You never know, you might even become good enough to feature in the next season of MasterChef.
Look at Chef Madhulika: https://www.youtube.com/user/NishaMadhulika. (She has grown from a home chef to 2 Million+ subscribers by preparing Indian recipes for kids studying abroad)
Ps : Your mom is going to love you too :p
Learn an instrument
Many people learn to play an instrument for pure enjoyment but eventually want to figure out how to make money with this skill. Once you have mastered a good deal of skills on your chosen instrument, you can offer to teach someone else those skills. This will keep you occupied and your wallet happy.
The Beatles played in nightclubs for an entire year before they tasted success. Try your luck out, you might just be the next Justin Bieber discovered off Youtube.
These are just some of the things I did during my summer holidays. Beyond these ideas, there are a lot more ways to strike out boredom and make yourselves useful over the holidays. Who knows, something might work out really well and we’ll have the next greatest entrepreneur of our time.
