How can a just-graduated student write and make money?

Finding a job is probably as difficult as going to a college or a university. Choosing large companies as a place to work, graduates again have to pass an entrance exam (interviews, test assignments), grades will be replaced by KPIs, and Corrective Action Plans will be opened for underachievers.

Launching your own business is also fraught with significant challenges: developing a business strategy, finding investors, controlling profits, and tax issues. Not everyone can work effectively under these pressures, and there are some other ways.

We’d like to tell you how a writing business can be a successful start for those who are new to the professional world.

Advantages and disadvantages – The core and indisputable advantage of writing is the minimum investment. You will only need a laptop, internet, and a bank card to transfer the money you earn. You will also be spared the crushing sense of inevitability that corporate employees and entrepreneurs suffer from.

The disadvantages may be the variability of work and high competition, but you can encounter all of these situations in any business. But if you persevere, you can have consistent success.

Freelancing with your academic skills – You can easily earn money using your professional knowledge. If you are trained as a lawyer, you can help people draft simple legal documents: complaints, statements of claim, motions. If your specialty is foreign languages, do translations of fiction or technical literature.

If you have successfully graduated in medicine, philosophy, construction, and other complex professions, you can offer custom term paper writing services to those students who, for some reason, cannot cope with the volume of the curriculum.

Freelancing as a writer – You don’t need to have exceptional professional knowledge to start writing. Therefore, if the path of a translator, legal consultant, or professional paper writers is not for you, but you feel the itch to write, you can move in other directions.

Both the above-mentioned and other freelance websites are full of proposals about the services of copywriting, rewriting, or ghostwriting; writing articles, reviews, resumes, and other texts on absolutely different topics.

These spheres will suit those who don’t feel confident in their knowledge but would like to try the writing craft.

Other online opportunities – For those who are not good at writing quality unique texts, there is another way, which although connected with writing texts but does not need the author’s creativity.

For example, you can offer services for typing, taking surveys, and testing websites and mobile apps.

How to get started?

To find orders for translation or typing, as well as legal and other issues, go to popular freelance websites such as Freelancer.com, Upwork.com, Guru.com, or PeoplePerHour.com.

You will need to register as a translator, a lawyer, an academic writer, or another professional, describe your education, experience, and skills, and then start looking for a job.

What if I don’t want to be a freelancer? Write a book… and publish it as an eBook, for example, via Amazon’s free Kindle Direct Publishing service, with which you can earn up to 70% royalty. Once you publish a good book, you will get passive income from future sales.

You can start blogging… but only if you have interesting ideas and thoughts to share with the world. Your income will depend on the number of ad unit views. By the way, if you are a beginner in an interesting field, write on professional topics, because writing your own blog will allow you to advertise your services.

Conclusion

Whichever direction you choose to pursue your writing ambitions, we recommend that you first evaluate your work fairly. So at first, you should work on creating a client base and getting positive feedback.

There’s nothing terrible about your first translation, legal or paper writing services being quite cheap among similar offerings on the market. Over time, your profile on the freelance websites will be upgraded enough to move to the next level.