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Channel: Let's Talk Money! with Joseph Hogue, CFA
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Waiting tables, barista, telemarketing all
these jobs suck no matter how old you are.
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In this video, I鈥檒l show you five jobs for
teenagers that not only make money but will
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change the way you think about work.
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Not only that but I鈥檒l reveal two things
to look for in any job that will keep you
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from falling into the same soul-crushing trap
90% of workers fall for.
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We鈥檙e talking best jobs for teens today
on Let鈥檚 Talk Money.
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Joseph Hogue with the Let鈥檚 Talk Money channel
here on YouTube.
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So these videos have been really popular on
the channel where we look at some of the highest
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paying jobs either ones without a degree or
for college students.
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And you know by now that I don鈥檛 go in for
all the lame types of jobs you see in other
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videos.
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First of all, if you need me to tell you that
a teenager can work as a babysitter or waiting
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tables, you鈥檝e got bigger problems than
making a buck.
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We all know these menial labor, minimum wage
jobs are out there just waiting for kids that
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companies can screw over for cheap labor.
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Also though, besides the fact that nobody鈥檚
learning anything with these crap jobs, do
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you really want to be mowing lawns for $5
an hour?
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Instead, what we鈥檙e looking at are jobs
for teenagers that you haven鈥檛 thought of,
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jobs where you can make more than minimum
wage and that can lead to something bigger.
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I鈥檓 going to reveal five great jobs for
teens but first I want to highlight two things
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you need to look for in any job you consider.
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Now I know you just want to jump right to
those five jobs for ideas but bear with me
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for two minutes because I guarantee these
two factors WILL change your life.
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First is that you want a job that is going
to show you the power of enjoying what you
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do for a living.
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This is a lesson I wish I had learned earlier
and the job trap is something 90% of the people
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out there fall into.
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Most teens HATE their first jobs but that鈥檚
just how it is, you hate your job but you
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do it because you need money to buy fun things.
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This never ends for a lot of people.
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They grow up and they hate their job but they
feel trapped because they need it to pay the
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bills and buy fun things like jet skis.
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They never learn that there is a completely
different life out there.
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I fell into this.
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I started bussing tables when I was 14 then
I started waiting tables.
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I worked in a coffee shop and I worked in
telemarketing.
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I hated every one of those jobs.
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I was miserable and went from one job to another.
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When I graduated college, I got a job in corporate
accounting, and again absolutely hated it.
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The thing is, I thought that鈥檚 just how
it is.
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You don鈥檛 have to like you鈥檙e job, you
just have to do it.
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I rolled my eyes every time I heard someone
say, find a job you love, because I didn鈥檛
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believe in it.
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But it is out there.
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It is possible to make money doing something
you enjoy and I can tell you, as someone that
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felt that soul crushing feeling of hating
his job, it is an amazing feeling when you
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learn how to enjoy your work.
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Do not get trapped into that job mentality.
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Even if you don鈥檛 go for one of the five
jobs for teens we鈥檒l talk about, look for
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a job doing something you enjoy from the start.
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The next factor that all these jobs have and
that really sets them apart from all those
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dead-end teen jobs is control over your financial
future.
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Another horrible thing people learn with their
first jobs is that hourly pay hopelessness.
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You get paid the same whether you flip 10
burgers or 100.
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There鈥檚 no reason to get better at the job,
no reason to do it well or even care.
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You have no control and nothing you do matters.
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Sure, if you enjoyed your job, maybe you鈥檇
work harder to get a promotion or a raise
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but if you hate your job then you just fall
into that zombie-like state of indifference.
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And it鈥檚 this experience that creates lazy
workers that are going to be lazy and unfulfilled
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their entire life.
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That is, until they鈥檙e 50 and get laid off
because their skills are shit and they鈥檝e
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never tried to take control of their job.
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A good job for teenagers or for anyone really
is going to give you some control over how
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much you make.
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That might mean either some kind of a base
plus commission incentive or it might mean
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working for yourself, creating a business
or an online asset that you control.
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Now we all know that you鈥檙e pretty limited
to what you can get as a teen.
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We looked at some great college jobs that
technically need a degree but you can talk
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yourself into them in another video.
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With good jobs for teens, this isn鈥檛 going
to happen.
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So we have to make these jobs.
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These jobs aren鈥檛 going to be as easy as
walking into the local Starbucks and taking
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the Help Wanted sign out of the window.
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We鈥檒l talk about how to set up and get started
on each of the jobs below but it might take
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a little help from parents to get things going.
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To the parents out there, please, if you want
your kids to live a happy, fulfilled lives
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help them out in this.
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Help them get a job with those two factors
we talked about and it will be supremely worth
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it.
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Our first job for teens is also probably the
easiest to get started, selling photography
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through sites like Depositphotos and Shutterstock.
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There isn鈥檛 much to this one because it鈥檚
so simple to get started.
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You can create an account on dozens of photo
or video sites and upload your images.
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You鈥檒l get paid from a quarter to two dollars
every time someone downloads your image.
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That means you can make money on this one
for months and years even after you鈥檝e stopped.
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You don鈥檛 need to be the next Ansel Adams
or Andy Warhol on this one.
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Just browse some of the images and stock video
on sites like Shutterstock and fotomoto.
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You鈥檒l get ideas on setting up a shot and
images that people want to buy.
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This one is the ultimate for flexibility and
ease.
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Spend a few hours learning basic photography
and then however many hours you want each
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week creating your images.
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Not only is this going to start making money
as soon as you upload photos but it鈥檚 going
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to show creativity on your resume.
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Our next job idea is tailor-made for teens,
a social media assistant on Instagram, Facebook
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and the social platforms.
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This has been a job we鈥檝e looked at in other
videos, where we鈥檝e talked about being a
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social media manager for online influencers
and entrepreneurs.
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The social media revolution has created stars
as big as any Hollywood blockbuster.
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Besides these personality influencers, no
business can be successful without the obligatory
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social media following.
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Take it from someone that operates three Twitter
accounts, two Facebook pages, plus social
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profiles on three other platforms, managing
all these can be a major pain.
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It鈥檚 21st century marketing and I along
with tens of thousands of other businesses
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and influencers want to outsource our marketing
department.
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Sometimes that means outsourcing it completely
to a social media manager and sometimes we
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just want a little help from a social media
assistant.
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I can think of no one better for this job
than a teenager that has grown up in the social
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revolution, someone that tweets faster than
I can talk or that knows what works on Instagram.
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As a social media manager, you鈥檇 work to
plan a marketing strategy.
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You鈥檇 organize social updates for each platform
and design graphics that work best on each.
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The work of an assistant is just taking a
part of this, maybe just designing the graphics
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or managing the updates.
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Do it right though and you can make a solid
paycheck from anywhere with an internet connection.
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Glassdoor reports the average salary for a
social media manager is just under $60,000
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with some making as much as $85,000 a year.
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Even as an assistant, you鈥檙e making $20
an hour or more.
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This is another one with huge potential to
turn it into a career.
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You鈥檒l learn organization and marketing
as well as other business concepts.
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If you鈥檝e got a social profile, you鈥檝e
got all you need to get started.
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Reach out to bloggers or other influencers
and talk about how you can help them with
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their social marketing.
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Be flexible and talk about learning from and
some project ideas to really boost their social
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influence.
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Another job we鈥檝e talked about before and
one that you can do from home is to start
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a meal service business.
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This one isn鈥檛 as complicated as it seems.
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The average family spends over three thousand
a year eating out and some groups like my
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own Gen X spend over four grand a year.
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That鈥檚 over $350 a month eating out and
doesn鈥檛 include the thousand or so a month
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on groceries.
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I actually think people would spend more eating
out if it wasn鈥檛 so damn expensive鈥nd
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that鈥檚 where you come in, offering home
cooking at half the cost of a restaurant.
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Think about it, the average dinner out for
a family of three is over $50 and most families
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are out just because they don鈥檛 want to
cook.
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This doesn鈥檛 have to be a big business.
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If you cook just three meals a week and have
on average three customer families each meal,
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you鈥檙e making $200 to $300 profit each week.
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It costs less than $5 a plate to cook at home
and meal delivery businesses typically charge
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at least $10 to $15 per serving with delivery.
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That鈥檚 a 200% profit on your costs and there
are a few things you can do to make this an
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even bigger money-maker.
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First, you want to plan a menu for each week.
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This means you鈥檙e not making dinners to
order, people aren鈥檛 calling up like it鈥檚
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a restaurant.
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You plan on making a specific mean each night.
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You take pre-orders from a website or social
media a night or two in advance so you have
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an idea of how much to make.
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This really cuts down on costs because you鈥檙e
making one meal in bulk to feed your own family
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and all your customers.
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Also, while you鈥檙e preparing your meal plan,
look for the meals you can make with the biggest
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profit.
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A study by Wellio found the difference between
restaurant prices and home cooking as high
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as $32 per serving for some dinners.
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Some dinners like Teriyaki Chicken and Broccoli
Alfredo Pasta even cost less than two dollars
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a serving to make.
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Of course, the most obvious challenge here
is that you need to learn how to cook but
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that鈥檚 something you鈥檙e going to use your
entire life.
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Spend a month learning how to cook a few dinners
and you鈥檙e all set.
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Another job for teens that involves some creativity
is selling handmade crafts on sites like Etsy
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and Artfire.
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This is a great one for the creatively-minded
because it鈥檚 going to involve ideas like
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production, marketing and business organization.
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More than 33 million people visit Etsy every
month so it鈥檚 a built-in market for your
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crafts.
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The site really makes it easy to set up your
listing and sell.
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It costs just $0.20 to list something on the
site and Etsy takes 5% of any sales.
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You get paid right into your PayPal account
and can list as many items as you like.
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With this one, it helps to have another source
for marketing your crafts, something like
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a blog or social media profiles.
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Like some of these job ideas, this is something
that鈥檚 going to take a week or two to set
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up but tools on Etsy make it very easy and
you鈥檒l learn how to market your products
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fast.
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Our fifth great job for teens is blogging
or as a blogger assistant.
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There鈥檚 nothing stopping you from starting
your own blog but as a teenager, maybe you
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want to start off as a blog manager or helping
an established blogger run their site.
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This means you only have to focus on one task
like content writing or graphics or scheduling
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instead of everything that goes into the business
of blogging.
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Bloggers can make tens of thousands a month
through affiliate marketing, ads, digital
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downloads and their own products but it鈥檚
a full-time job with a million moving parts.
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Believe me, if you can take a part of the
workload and do it well, that鈥檚 easily worth
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twenty or thirty bucks an hour to the blogger.
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Just like with that social media assistant
job, you鈥檒l look to bloggers or online influencers
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to get hired.
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The best way to do this is to go to a blogging
or social media conference and just start
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talking to people.
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With any of these jobs, there鈥檚 the possibility
that you won鈥檛 make a lot of money but what
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did you really miss compared to the lame,
typical teenager job?
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The take-home pay on minimum wage is about
$6 an hour which means about $350 a month
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on a part-time schedule.
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You can easily do that in any of these jobs
and even more, it鈥檚 all up to you because
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you control how much you make.
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With many of these jobs, not only are you
going to be getting paid but you鈥檒l also
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be creating an asset that could keep making
money.
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You鈥檒l be learning something other than
how to bus tables and will have a great story
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that will get the attention of any college
recruiter.
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