By: Ronah Pingoy – June 8, 2020
Covid-19 forced professionals to give up their jobs or render services in a skeletal and shortened time system. If the pandemic impacted your job, probably you are looking for alternative solutions and tend to improvise for what’s left of the time you have.
Worrying is not the best choice, consider the current crisis as a perfect opportunity to make the best from every situation and acquire additional income, mostly from the convenience of your own home. Search for a part-time job relevant to your course or profession which adds to your resume and educates you with new knowledge in your field of expertise. The best part is you won’t be running out of options. Filipinos, who are willing to be profitable and earn additional income out of their free time, can apply to a variety of part-time jobs made accessible both online and offline.
Are you starting to wonder what part-time jobs are available for professionals like you? Here are the top ten of the leading part-time jobs that you can try.
1. Online Teaching
If you excel in a specific area of study and have the potential to provide other people with knowledge, then perhaps you should search for online teaching jobs. A one-on-one private tutorial can provide you with extra cash. Even so, online teaching for a group of students earns more. Teaching online isn’t just a good way to earn money but also helping learners acquire knowledge and develop new skills sets.
English is among the in-demand courses for online teaching since many students need help in speaking and writing the language fluently. However, some learning platforms accept online tutors to teach K-12 subjects. Thus, if you’re a professional, you can apply at Chalkboard as an online tutor. Make the most of your time and help Filipino students.
2. Survey Responders
If teaching isn’t your forte, for most professionals, answering online surveys is another means of earning money. It’s easy and doesn’t take much time and pays off quite well. All you’ve got to do is answer a survey relating to a company, service or product. Then you’re going to get paid for the responses you’ve made.
Businesses typically want detailed information for certain reports and analysis, and conducting surveys is the smartest method in getting what they want in return for the money they spent. Most popular survey platforms you can try are Survey Junkie, Swagbucks, and MyPoints
3. Virtual Assistant
Another part-time job that you can do online is becoming a Virtual Assistant. VA’s, although they operate online, are like company employees offering operational and private assistance. The duties of a digital assistant depend on the type of business a company or the employer has. It may include writing and editing communications, data encoding, organizing records, coordinating meetings, planning presentation slides, monitoring social media sites, emails and blogging, and much more.
Rates of pay range from Php 150 – Php 500 per hour or that’s around Php 10,000 – Php 15,000 per month on a part-time basis.
4. Online Researcher
On the other hand, if researching is your hobby and you can find information that others can’t, you can earn from that. Get paid for collecting data from various internet sites on a specific topic. Such data and information would be helping companies in their consumers’ data analysis on rival company products or discovering product lines that could be in-demand for the company.
5. Graphic Designer
Landing on the fifth spot of the top ten part-time jobs that you can try is web designing. Such careers pay off very well, mostly for artists that already have professional designing skills. You can utilize your free time to make money by creating blogs, books, and promotional materials if you have enough knowledge of using digital software.
However, before you apply make sure you are knowledgeable and an expert in the field of using graphic design programs (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, etc.)
6. Online Content Manager / Editor
Next in line is Content managing or editing. If you’re a professional who has extremely good skill sets in writing and editing, has fluency in the English native language, verbally and in writing and can meet deadlines and multitask at the same time, then this is for you.
Content editors work hand in hand with authors and writers whose primary role is to create good content for the customers. They analyze layouts and supervise in the overall process of developing the content being used. A content editor’s primary purpose is to make sure that the quality of the contents created are top-notch. It includes verifying for grammar and design errors, guaranteed that it is relevant and readable to the intended market. Additional workloads include creating a game plan or timetable for the content and ensuring that content editors are en route.
7. Blogger
Almost all companies are hiring bloggers to attractively create new and relevant content for their social media pages. Bloggers take full advantage in using powerful words to publish convincing and captivating written content which are often engaging and attract readers attention.
They are considered pros in the industry of selling and utilizing their ideas to help companies acquire additional customers and creating additional profits. Their major goal is to produce well-written content for printing or publishing online.
A blogger must be flexible, and therefore can create compelling content for customers social media sites, blog posts, email promotions, script videos and directories, and other social networking sites.
If you have a knack for writing, then this part time job may be for you.
8. Photographer
If you have a good camera and passion for capturing breathtaking moments, engage with local photojournalists and ask if they need a helping hand. You can also work as a freelance photographer and turn that hobby into a great source of extra income. You can do such jobs on your free time or weekends, which makes it perfect if you prefer a relaxed schedule.
9. Social Media Manager
Do you think you’ve wasted your time and energy scrolling Facebook and Instagram? Well, not necessarily, because you have acquired valuable skills.
You get yourself familiar with how brands and companies are promoting their brand using social media. Apply these acquired skills and earn by managing social networking pages for startups or non-startup companies. These jobs are perfect for busy professionals that can multitask because most of these duties can be accomplished online.
10. Rideshare Driver
In this job, which you can do part-time or full-time, there is no limit of choices, from carsharing, ridesharing, or delivery drivers. Several companies allow you to carshare or deliver under their affiliation. If you apply, you can then offer rides to passengers on trips that are on the same route with your destination. So, get around and advertise your car available for rent any day within the week.
The Bottomline
All of us must work our way to achieve our goals and thrive. Not just because of these current health crises, but the fact that we need to keep the lights on, the water running, and the food to keep coming on the table. Life has endless possibilities if we know where to look.
Take the top ten part-time jobs for professionals listed above, apply, try, and work it out. In doing so, remember that good things wait for those who persevere.