BSc Computer Science student trying to make some cash, preferably from home

[FrankNStine]

Hey Carbies! Hope some of you cool people will be able to give me some advice here.

I'm currently studying, doing my Honors in BSc Computer Science this year. I'm pretty much flat broke, and I'm trying to figure out things I can do to earn some cash. Not looking to become a millionaire, but just pay for my wifi and maybe have some coffee not made in my kitchen. I've got a decent PC, and a mostly stable and consistent wifi connection. Ideally looking for stuff I could do from home/ on my PC as I need to be able to keep an eye on my little brother.

The things I have done:

• Signed up on Prolific for surveys. I've made under R400 over the last year.
• Signed up on rev.com for transcribing. I haven't yet done the intro, but that is something I'm going to look into on my holiday.
• I've been a waiter at a local cafe for years. I could always go there but I would prefer not to.

I'm pretty tech savvy, I have considered offering PC related services (things like cleaning/ troubleshooting, GPU repasting etc) but I don't think there's much of a market for those things (I could be wrong, that's just my opinion). I have zero cash at the moment to put towards it, but I may have to reconsider.

Shot peeps!

PS: If you've got any advice for my career options going forward, feel free to share! I don't really know what I want to do or what role I want to fill, so I'll be applying for all the graduate programs that I find. But I'm open to any ideas, and any insight into the industry would be really appreciated!

 

[bjacog]

Can you code? We have an intern program for grads, could lead to employment, work from home, mostly web apps and native apps and microservices running on aws. DM me if interested.

 

[VladM]

Not sure if this is a serious post (surveys, transcribing???), or things have changed drastically, but back when I was a postgrad small/medium devshops literally used to fight over cheap (for them) hourly paid labour from the hons/msc pool. This not happening anymore?

 

[bjacog]

@VladM this has changed a bit but with everyone moving to remote or hybrid envs, grads are having a hard time, as no one wants to train them to “work”. And remote just adds to the cost of it all.

If a grad can do well in an interview they are usually picked very quickly.

 

[FrankNStine]

Not sure if this is a serious post (surveys, transcribing???), or things have changed drastically, but back when I was a postgrad small/medium devshops literally used to fight over cheap (for them) hourly paid labour from the hons/msc pool. This not happening anymore?

I'm 100% serious. I'm not looking to commit myself to more than I can chew when I have endless work to do for Honors, hence why I signed up for those things. They're quick, easy enough, and I could do them from home. In terms of devshops, I wouldn't know where to even begin looking hence this post. Not a single person I know has got a position like that, everyone has been taken into various graduate programs after they completed the year (I have friends at 2Cana, FNB and Amazon - Those are the ones I know of)