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If you think that any part-time job is great when you are a student, you might want to think again.
While every job surely has its own advantages, there are some that are better than others and some that are simply the best.
Bar work and waitressing might be the most common or even popular, but the very best part-time jobs for students tend in fact to be in one of the following categories: campus jobs, career-related jobs, and entrepreneurship.
Campus jobs
The main advantages of part-time students jobs on the campus are money, flexibility and location. Many campus jobs are in fact better paid than other part-time jobs because the universities and students’ unions tend to set hourly wages for students above the minimum amount. Moreover, they offer maximum flexibility to accommodate your study schedule.
They are required to ensure that you don’t have to miss your lectures or labs and that you can attend all exams and have the time to study for them. As for the location, what can be more convenient than being able to get on foot from your work place to your study place and to your room? No time and no money lost on getting to and from work, when having a campus part-time job.
In addition to the above advantages, campus jobs can also offer a good way to get to know people on campus and make friends. Moreover, there is usually a wide range of campus jobs, from being the resident advisor or tutor to IT support student, gym attendant, student union rep or research assistant. Just choose the one that fits best your interests otherwise and enjoy one of the best part-time jobs that there are for students.
Career-related jobs
Career-related jobs are those that help you to gain experience and even connections in the field of your chosen future career. Alternatively, if you are not yet decided on a career, such jobs can help you get to know various fields and thus help you choose a career.
Unless you plan to become a university professor, researcher, or IT technician, career-related jobs will likely be outside the university campus. Nevertheless, they have the main advantage that they effectively complement your study and can help you tremendously in the long term. Simply search for part-time jobs in environments that are as close as possible to what you would like doing after you graduate.
For instance, if you study arts, try to find a part-time job at an art gallery, art shop or artist’s workshop. If you study IT or computer science, seek a part-time job in a company that designs, develops, maintains or sells software. Any career-related job will look fantastic on your CV and the experience you gain, as well as the people you get to know will likely help you to get a good job after you graduate.
Entrepreneurship
If you have what it takes, entrepreneurship can be the very best part-time job you can get as a student. Its huge advantage comes from the fact that it forces you to learn a lot. Even if your business does not finally take off or pay a lot, simply trying to make it work will help you develop very useful skills such as communication, time and resource management, research, finances. Moreover, this is an option that is always available to everybody: no need to search for a job opening.
Instead, you need to come up with a business idea, research the market, organize your business and run it as best as you can. All this can be a hugely valuable experience and, what is even best, it usually looks great in your CV regardless of whether the business was actually profitable in the end or not. Just make sure to remember it was supposed to be a part-time and not a full-time job and you can consider it truly the best job ever!
