5 Ways To Make It Rain Through Summer

So it’s summer. You’ve finished another year at university – perhaps all of them. You’ve got three months until you enter your second or third year or start your new-found graduate job (congratulations, by the way!).

But you don’t want to go home for three months, back to the little towns with all the neighbours you never really liked, and posters on your old bedroom wall of bands who ‘just aren’t my vibe anymore’.

Still, how are you going to earn money, in order to stay in your uni house with your best friends and that forever-expanding pile of washing up?

Extra work

Whether you’re a big film buff or you’ve never seen a Harry Potter movie in your life (at least tell me you’ve read the books?!), extra work is probably the easiest way to make money. Ever.

Also known as a ‘Background Artist’, literally all you do is sit around for about ten hours, wait for “ACTION”, do the same thing seven times and then go home. Free food, free transport (most of the time), and about £100 in your account – although it does usually take at least six weeks to come through.

You’ve got to have patience and the ability to remain enthusiastic even when you’re tired and bored. But you don’t even need to know how to act. Just don’t look into the camera or ask when lunch is and you’ll be fine.

Some easy-to-register agency sites include Casting Collective, We Got Pop and Universal Extras.

Modelling

Similarly to extra work, modelling requires you to merely stand there and look pretty. Okay, so you’ve got to have confidence and, y’know, a decent bone structure. But potential jobs can include anything, from photos for a fashion brand catalogue to a print advert for chocolate spread.

There are lots of different types of modelling – from ‘runway’ to ‘alternative’, so it doesn’t matter if you’re not tall and skinny. Just make sure it’s all legit and professional.

Babysitting

The classic money-making scheme of sitting on babies! Except you don’t even have to sit on them, you just sit on the sofa whilst they sleep in their beds!

I’m sure we’ve all done it once before, especially if you have younger siblings. Some parents will pay around £15-£20 an hour if you’re lucky, so try and advertise in the local corner shop, or put up a babysitter ad on Gumtree. You could also do the same for dog walking!

Delivery driver/rider

Can you ride a bike? Do you own a bike? Get one. You can deliver food from takeaways to houses and apparently make up to £120 a day for companies like Deliveroo. They even have a Deliveroo rider app which makes your shifts flexible and easy to plan.

This is also a really great way to keep fit and burn off all the calories from eating pasta every night for a week.

Clinical trials

Last but not least, clinical trials. Although some of these will require you to stay somewhere for 2-4 weeks, you could receive up to £3000; that would cover your rent for the whole of summer, plus a few fancy food shops at Waitrose instead of Aldi!

Sound dangerous? It’s not. The rigorous tests that legit trials run before accepting candidates ensure that nobody at risk is ever tested upon. You make a lot of money, you’re helping to cure viruses that could save billions of people in the future and you get two weeks to just chill out and do whatever you want.

Who knew making summer dosh could be so fulfilling?

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