Want to stop working in final college year - ideas to keep cash-flow?

Dave!

Hey folks,

I'm going into my final year in college and would prefer (as I suppose would most people) not to have to work, but I need cash for the odd night out and other day to day purchases.

Has anyone managed to get through final year with no job? Any tips on alternative sources of income? I've been playing guitar for years, so was thinking I could try to give beginners' lessons.

Any other ideas, fire away..... I'm hoping that I won't have to resort to selling my body/drugs.

Cheers

Necronomicon

I managed to go jobless for the second half of my last year.

I kept my job up until Christmas, and saved just about every cent I could. Left in January, had just about enough to keep me going until May. Just had to be a little thrifty.

Of course, doing that depends on your job and if you think you could keep it on for a few months. I was lucky I had a boss who was pretty good with hours, I never really got over-worked.

token56

If you are particularly good at a specific subject in college maybe giving grinds could be a possibility even to secondary school level. Personally I have been giving grinds in maths to a number of people doing there leaving cert in the past 3 years. If you are not helping them, they wont come back, but if your good its easy money, relatively speaking.

chris85

Hey OP, i just finished my final year and wouldnt have had time to work during it. I worked very hard last summer year and saved about 4000 going into the year which was great.

I also got a small grant which helped when it came in but it wasnt much, maybe check if your eligible for grant. Contact your local VEC to see about this.

I am also fairly nifty at maths so started giving maths grinds to junior and leaving cert students but the hours were long in college so actually didnt have time for this. But there are website you can advertise as a tutor for free and i got calls from people checking these sites out but as said my schedule meant I just didnt have time.

Towards the end of the year (about April) I was starting to go low on money so I got a loan from BOI for 2000 (its interest free up to this amount, student travel loan) and that has to be paid within nine months of getting it to be interest free. Plan to pay it all back by next month or so.

Also if you have a free day from college each week maybe check out doing some extra work I done it once or twice in previous years on a well known unliked irish soap and most of the day you were doing nothing so had time to look over college work.

Hope that helps

Goodluck2me

you should take out the free interest loan and put it in a high-yielding interest account, money for nothing.
Grinds are a great way to make money too, as would perhaps doing the odd gig with the guitar in pubs?

lemon_sherbert

UCD generally have a few one off days a year, that you can earn a bit of money. Counting votes for the returning officers, etc. Easy enough way to earn, without much of a time sacrifice

Gone West

goodluck2me wrote: »

you should take out the free interest loan and put it in a high-yielding interest account, money for nothing.
Grinds are a great way to make money too, as would perhaps doing the odd gig with the guitar in pubs?

This is not a good idea.
Just to clarify.

AARRRGH

The first thing to do is to cut down on your expenditure -- cheaper food, more cans & less pints, etc. This way you can make your money last a lot longer than before.

Work out a budget if possible. Will €50 do you for the week?

Then calculate exactly how much you need.

€50 x 40 = €2000

When you're working full-time after your education, you'll be able to pay back €2000 in no time, so if working really isn't an option, try to get a loan off someone.

Alternatively put an advert on Gumtree.ie, Boards.ie, and in shop windows offering grinds and guitar lessons.

coco85

I dont know where you are in college but i went to UL.

I used to work for 3/4 hrs an evening three evenings a week with the colleges charity- basically cold callling past graduates to donate cash to the university.. we got min wage at the time.. and you can opt in for as many hrs as you want.

Each week a schedule was made up so you could change your hrs to suit your study schedule..

So if you were to work 4 hrs 3 evenings a week you would prob end up with 100euro or so a week.

Obviously if you do not attend UL then this may not be an option but your college may have some other handy, flexible job available.

Best of luck with it...

MIN2511

Grinds would be the first idea that comes to mind...