This article is contributed by Credit Bureau Singapore.
The impact that post-pandemic has left in Singapore also brought along some positive spins as many new jobs were introduced during these recent years. Some schools in Singapore are still very receptive and welcoming of the idea for students to attend school lectures through online webinars instead. With the flexibility of not being physically restricted to be on campus, more students are finding ways to maximise their income while multi-tasking at home.
1. Pet Boarding
If you are a serious pet lover and a responsible person, you can be a pet sitter for your neighbours or anyone residing near your neighbourhood. Pet boarding can be day-care service, overnight stay or sometimes even just a few hours of walk and play-time. This requires zero skill and it is a great entry point for anyone as long as you have a big heart for animals. It is a win-win situation for you to earn additional income during your school term break as full-time pet owners will typically require this service if they are out of the country or they will be away from home for long hours during the day.
2. Earn Interests as you save
Rather than keeping your money in your closet, save your money with the bank and earn interests along the way. In recent years, banks and financial institutions are pushing out more attractive interests to get more consumers to keep their savings with the bank. Typically, these comes with certain criteria that you will have to meet in order to enjoy the maximum benefits; example: open a new Current and Savings Account (CASA) and deposit a lump sum in the account, set up monthly GIRO salary crediting or make a minimum spend on the debit or credit card every month. Otherwise for starters like you, there are also saving accounts targeted at students who generally do not have a fixed monthly income yet. Usually, the criteria to opening your first student savings account will have little to no initial deposits but yet allowing you to accumulate interests as you go.
3. Set up an online e-commerce
With the rise in e-commerce shopping and live streaming, more shop sellers are opening e-commerce shops to reach out to a larger target audience. Many homeowners have also set up their own home-based businesses ranging from home-baked goodies to apparels and accessories. With the vast choices of social media and e-commerce platforms, e-commerce businesses are fuss-free to set up, with low start-up costs and lesser time commitment as compared to a brick-and-mortar shop.
Of course, setting up a business is no easy work. You will still need to do your own self-research, have sufficient industry knowledge as well as think about the best business approach you would like to apply to maximise your business profit and bring down the costs and efforts to a minimum.
4. Join a focus group discussion or be a mystery shopper
Get paid to speak the truth! Focus groups are paid in-depth surveys that are typically used for marketing research, especially for a new product launch or for existing products. Marketing research companies or retailers usually engage mystery shoppers to shop at several locations to evaluate and grade the organisation’s customer service skills and attitude before reporting back the overall findings. These are also low barriers to entry part-time jobs that do not require any skills to participate.
However, it may not be that easy to be selected as usually the marketers are looking out for people with very specific demographics that best suit the client’s intended target audience.
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