5 ways to make money as a teenager
By: Fflur Lewis
Tags: Teenagers, Jobs, Money, Careers, How To Make Money

Many teens are constantly looking for jobs or things to do to make a little money for themselves. As a teenager myself i completely understand how this can be a struggle since most teens dont have the qualifications or the experience to get a job that doesn’t pay over minimum wage, but this doesn’t mean it’s completely impossible to get good money in a short amount of time.

Today i will be telling you about 5 ways to get a little money and how to make the most out of your career.

1. Depop/Etsy store

A Depop or Etsy store is a brilliant way to make money out of your own creativity. Both sites have over 21 million users meaning you have a big audience with many different interests.

What not to do:

Over/under price your items

Lie about it’s worth (for example: if it’s fake, any damage, etc.)

Falsely advertise your item (for example: fake pictures)

What to do:

Be active

Be polite with your customers

Ship orders within the next 1–5 days (it will leave good reviews)

Renew your listings often

If you are wondering on what to sell on your store here are a few ideas:

Thrifted clothing

Artworks

Jewellery

Resin art

Phone cases

Wax melts

Candles

Etc.

2. Fiverr

Fiver is a brilliant site to put your “useless” talents to work. Fiverr is a site used by over 2.4 million people, so there isn’t a lack of customers. It is most commonly used for selling logos, edits, music lessons, language lessons and more.

3. Social media

We’ve all heard of instagram, snapchat, TikTok, YouTube and Twitter. These are all platforms that are perfect for making a little extra cash. Also its not just teens that make money from them; a lot of adults do it as a full time job. The key to getting as much success and money from these platforms is views. In order to get views you will need to show: creativity, originality and entertainment.

When starting out on these platforms you have to keep in mind that it takes time for you to grow your channel/account. It doesn’t just fall into your hands immediately.

4. Buying and reselling

Buying and reselling is a excellent way to make profit in a fast amount of time. A good thing about it is no matter what you will get the money you invested back. Very popular platforms for buying and reselling are eBay and Facebook. Facebook is a brilliant place to buy things you want to resell for the reason that most of the people are selling their items for some quick money meaning you can get easy deals. eBay is perfect for selling the items you bought because you can list your items for free and you can put them up for auction (who knows you could get more than what you expected this way).

Some very important rules to follow whilst buying and reselling are:

Check the condition of the item

Don’t buy items that are too expensive to make profit from

Never buy from a low reviewed seller

Some popular things to buy and resell are:

Trainers/sneakers

Branded bags/coats

Phones

PS4/ps5/xboxes

5. Online surveys

Online surveys are a really easy way to make money, but not as much of it in a quick time. You also need to be careful that you are not giving to much of your information away when filling in the survey; sometimes online survey sites can scam you into doing the survey and they wont give you anything back for it but who knows it could be a start of something brilliant for you.

Final notes

Everything takes time so don’t forget to be patient with yourself.

Always strive to make things better.

Do your research before hand because others have experienced this before you, make the best out of their pointers.