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Corona Lockdown: Earning Online During Quarantine

As coronavirus continues to progress, various countries continue to observe lockdowns to maintain social distancing. With the prevalent uncertainty during such dire conditions, there’s no telling when the lockdowns will be lifted. Taking into account, the rapid spread of COVID-19, the lockdown could continue to be enforced anywhere from several weeks to several months. Social media has been going crazy with the latest trends of people making dalgona coffee and tiktok videos in order to keep themselves entertained during quarantine while others have opted to make their quarantine days fruitful by signing up for online jobs. Online money making has gained a lot of fame in the past few years due to the comfort it provides to employees, allowing them to work from the comfort of their homes. These days, when everyone’s bored out of their minds, taking on an online job doesn’t sound like too bad of an idea. If you’re interested in earning some money online — who isn’t? — here’s a list of job ideas you can take on to earn while staying safe at home:

  • Freelancing

Freelancing is one of the best methods of earning a fair income online. No matter how little experience you have — or none at all — freelancing is the place to get started if you think you’re talented at something. The best thing about it is that it allows a lot of room for comfort as you can choose to do work of your on choice at times that are feasible to you. Some of the most famous websites that allow you to work for free include upwork, freelancer, peopleperhour etc. where you can sign up for free and provide your services to clients of your choice in a number of fields like web designing, writing, graphic designing, translating, programming and many more.

  • Sell items you don’t use

We’re all guilty of buying stuff from stores during sales, later realising that they’re not much of use for us. Luckily, as the proverb goes, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. These items that stay rotting in a corner until you throw them away a decade later, may actually be something someone else has spent weeks scouring for. While definitely not a career path, you can earn money by selling those items online, very easily.

  • Online tutoring

Do you think you possess great English language skills? Maybe you’re an expert in math, or maybe you have great knowledge about chemistry? Well, translate your talent into understandable form to students who are struggling with the subjects you’re proficient in. Online tutoring has become quite ubiquitous today and thousands of people actually benefit from it. The student, by learning new skills and the teacher, by earning crisp bills.

  • Create a youtube channel

Youtube has become the new trend, vlogging and making skit videos has become quite popular these days. The best thing about it? You can earn through it! If you have an interest in cameras, videography and possess a creative streak, you can use youtube as a platform to earn. It’s easy, free and fun. If you’re planning on signing up today, here’s some content ideas that your audience might find interesting:

  1. Make travel vlogs. People love those!
  2. Cooking videos are also quite popular.
  3. DIYs. Works for all age groups!
  4. Do fun little skit videos.
  5. Makeup tutorials.
  6. Do trendy internet challenges.
  • Sell your art

Are you an artist? Do you love doing sketches and capturing nature on a canvas through painting? How great would it be if you could actually earn by doing what you love! Create masterpieces and sell it to art fanatics. You could also sell prints, make tutorials on social media, start an art blog and much more. There’s also websites for artists looking to sell their art. Artwanted and Artpal are just two of such websites. Browse the internet, you’ll find so many more!

  • Blogging

If you think you’re proficient in the English language and are passionate about something, make it your niche and start a blog. It could literally be about anything you’re interested in; fashion, health, technology, reviews etc. Set up your blog on WordPress, sign up on Google AdSense to have ads placed on your blog and start earning.

  • Article writing

Article writing is easy and fun and can become a source of income for you. Write articles on various topics such as: social issues and politics and sell them to websites that are willing to buy them. In today’s technologically advanced era, online jobs have become quite sought-after. The new generation would rather work from the comfort of their homes than opting for a clerical job, which is absolutely fine and with quarantine lasting god knows how long, online earning can be very useful and make your boring quarantine days productive and fun!

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