Hey guys, welcome back to the channel! Today we're going to take a look at 10 different online jobs that you can get in 2020, even if you are still a high school or a college student. Now, you can do these even if you aren't a student.
All of the jobs that I'm going to mention can realistically pay $15 or more an hour, just really depending on how experienced you are with these and your attention to detail. For most of the jobs that I'm going to mention, I would recommend using a platform like Upwork. This is not sponsored in any way, but with Upwork, you can actually look through jobs that people have already posted who are actively looking for help with their projects.
You could also use something like Fiverr, but I tend to find that with Fiverr, it's really built more for people looking for freelancers rather than the other way around. Upwork goes both ways, and there are a ton of different platforms out there, but that is just the one that I think is easiest to get started with. We'll start off with the job on this list that requires the lowest skill level, and that would be data entry.
With data entry, this can be a variety of different things. It could be taking someone's PDF document and transferring it to Word; it could be transferring data into an Excel spreadsheet; it could even be writing product listings or transferring products from one online store to another online store. Typically, with data entry, you don't really need experience in anything, but you will need to have a high attention to detail, especially if you are copying over important financial numbers or product names, things like that.
It usually needs to match exactly what the client is giving you, so it's super important that you are able to actually take data and make sure that it is exactly the same when you are transferring it wherever it needs to go. Even with data entry jobs, I would try to look on somewhere like Upwork first. There's also something called Amazon Mechanical Turk, but I find that that's really just like a ripoff; you barely make any money off of it.
People who are posting on there don't really want to pay for quality work, so going with Upwork, you're going to get a better rate, and you are going to be able to charge $15 or more. It's really you set your own rate and you charge what you want. The next job that would be good for pretty much anyone from their early teens to their late 20s would be a social media manager.
Now, I use the word "manager" in quotes because there are a lot of courses and just spammy-looking things out there where people are like, "I'll teach you to be a social media manager for only two thousand dollars a week and you'll make ten thousand dollars a week. " No, don't do that! But you can make money managing people's social media accounts, and usually, this is going to be for an influencer, someone who's trying to become an influencer, or some sort of brand or e-commerce store.
However, you could even do this for local businesses like different restaurants or maybe, you know, like a dentist or a chiropractor that wants to post on social media but doesn't necessarily have time to do it themselves. So, what a social media manager does is make the post, maybe schedule the post. If there are multiple people involved, it may be making their schedules for when things need to be posted and making sure that everyone stays on track so that the schedule is kept.
This could also be deciding which channels they're going to focus their attention on. For example, do they pull in the most business through Facebook or through Instagram, or maybe they're trying out TikTok or something like that? You would really be the one deciding where they're posting, what they're posting, and how often they're posting.
That leads into the third job, which is social media marketing. Again, huge buzzword! There are a bunch of very questionable courses on social media marketing, but the point is, knowing how to market is a very valuable skill, and it's something that companies are willing to pay for.
So when I'm talking about social media marketing, mostly what I'm talking about is running ads as well as sending email campaigns. Both are huge sources of revenue for companies, and so that is what they focus a lot of their time and their budget on. What you would need to learn for this is how to run Facebook ads, maybe how to run ads on Instagram or Snapchat, and then it would also be beneficial to learn how to run email campaigns.
There are a bunch of free platforms that you can do that on as well as paid platforms, and once you learn one, the rest are kind of similar. One of the free ones that you can start out with is Mailchimp. That's what a lot of companies start out with at the very beginning, or a lot of small businesses use.
It's pretty simple; it's like a drag-and-drop type program. But once you learn how to send effective emails, that is something that people are willing to pay a lot of money for. The next job is to be a freelance writer.
Now, if you're halfway decent at writing, you for sure can make more than $15 an hour. It's really hard to find a good writer, and if you are a good writer, please share your skills with the rest of us. This job can be especially good if you have any knowledge in a particular niche, so for example.
. . You could be a finance writer.
You could write about online businesses, or you could write about coaching. All three of those have picked up a lot in popularity, so those are just the ones that came to the top of my head. With copywriting jobs, especially with the posts that you see on Upwork, a lot of them are going to be for email campaigns.
They'll be for landing pages, which is the main page that you land on when you are going to someone's website, and they're trying to sell you a service. So, if you've ever seen any of those coaching landing pages or even landing pages for courses, they hire people to actually write that sales text that is trying to sell you their course or their services or whatever else they're selling. But the same thing goes for that.
So, you don't necessarily have to have a particular niche, but you can do copywriting specifically for emails, or specifically for landing pages, or articles, or whatever really interests you. The next job is a virtual assistant, which if you're not already in the online job world, you may not have heard of this. But this basically is just a general term for someone online that's helping you do whatever tasks you need.
Virtual assistants can do a wide variety of things, but a lot of times it will involve some sort of customer service support. It may have to do with some of the other jobs that I've already mentioned, like scheduling social media posts. If it's for an e-commerce brand, it may be something like keeping their product listings up to date, keeping their sales pages up to date, and things like that.
It could also be light data entry or really anything else that they need help with. For this one, it may be $15 an hour; it may be a little bit lower and maybe a little bit higher. It really just depends on the client and what they need you to do.
The next job is to be a video editor, which I think is a little bit more fun than some of the others. But even if you don't have a ton of experience editing videos, if you spend a day or two on YouTube looking up tutorials, you can definitely learn enough to get started. This is just a really good skill to have because so many people are trying to produce video content or add that to the content that they already produce.
There are just a ton of people who are looking for video editors for their YouTube videos, for their Instagram or TikTok videos, or even for their online courses. So, I just think that's a good skill in general to have, but it's even better because you can also get paid for it. The next job, kind of down the same path, is to do graphic design.
Photoshop and Illustrator are pretty much the industry standards for what professional graphic designers use, but there are also some free online alternatives. Canva is one of them that lets you make pretty good-looking social media graphics, website graphics, and different-sized banners, and they have templates that you can work off of too. So, that's not ideal necessarily, but you can definitely get started with that.
The next job that requires a little bit more skill, or at least a little bit more time and effort on your part, is a web developer or a web designer. For this, you don't necessarily have to know really intense coding or anything. If you learn how to use WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, or any of those platforms, you can build websites for people, and you can charge them for it.
You can probably make well over $15 an hour doing it. This is another job where you may not currently know how to build websites, but if you spend a week or two on YouTube and just Googling things, you can definitely start out on one of those basic website builders that's kind of a drag-and-drop situation and build pretty decent websites for people that they will pay you more than $15 an hour for. Then, as you get more familiar with those, you can definitely move into more complicated website builders that people will pay you even more for.
The ninth job is to teach English online. This has been around for a while, but especially now, people are willing to pay a little bit more to get a good online English tutor. One popular program is called VIPKid.
Through them, basically what you're doing is tutoring international kids. You are having basic conversations with them in English and teaching them simple terms, words, and phrases. As you move into later levels, you'll be having full conversations with them, practicing their sentence structure and things like that.
That's something that's pretty nice to have because it is on your own schedule, and you can open up the time slots that you would be willing to teach at. If that's something that you're interested in, I think there's a whole English teaching side of YouTube where people have a lot of fun making different props and stuff for their classes, so definitely go search for that stuff if teaching English online is something that you're interested in. The last job is translation, which, of course, will not be applicable to everyone.
But if you were lucky enough to grow up in a bilingual household or you were fortunate enough to go to a school that actually put time into teaching you a language, then translation can be something that people are willing to pay a pretty good amount of money for. Especially if you are completely fluent in two different languages, and you're able to translate things like medical documents or legal documents, but it doesn't necessarily have to be that complex. I know that a lot of people will pay to have their eBooks or their courses translated into other languages, so those are options as well.
Hopefully, this gave you a few ideas of jobs that you can start looking into. If you enjoyed this video, be sure to leave a like, subscribe to the channel, and I will see you guys next time!
