By Rachel Puryear

For younger adults, there are good reasons why many of them might want to work remotely.

Many of them are priced out of homes in cities with large job centers, and not having to commute opens up options to buy something further out – this is especially helpful if they want to start a family soon. Furthermore, money saved by working from home could be freed to pay student loans, and other life goals they may wish to pursue.

However, a relative lack of experience can prove challenging for young job seekers generally, and especially in competing with more established workers for much-desired remote jobs.

Therefore, here are some remote income ideas which might work well for young people with relatively limited work experience:

Tutoring and Teaching Online

Young adults often recently finished school, and still have a good recollection of what they learned. At their age, they’re still also often relatable for children and teens.

They can use that to teach or tutor online, particularly in subjects they did well in, to others needing help with those same subjects.

Younger people also are usually savvy with more recent technology, especially compared with older populations. This also opens opportunities to teach people online about using technology, for people looking for help with that.

Customer Service Representatives

If you’re a people person, and calm in dealing with difficult people and stressful situations, you can always find work in customer service. This kind of work will exercise your problem-solving skills, and help build patience.

While most entry-level customer service positions don’t pay very well, there’s a lot of potential for growth into higher-level customer service positions after getting some experience.

Data Entry Clerks

Data entry positions usually don’t require much if any experience. They don’t pay much, but can start a path towards something more lucrative – and exciting, such as data analytics.

Affiliate Marketing – By Way of Blogs, Videos, Product Promotions

If you like to write or make videos, are knowledgable and passionate about a particular subject (no matter what your interests are or how obscure they might seem, there are others who share them and are eager to hear/read/watch more about it), you could make a blog, video, or podcast. By promoting or advertising for products in your content, you can earn commissions with affiliate marketing. This means you don’t have to manage inventory, handle customer service, or coordinate manufacturing and delivering the products, either. Knowledge about marketing online is helpful in doing this, too. See here for more about affiliate marketing.

Freelance Writing

There will always be a need for freelance writers – whether that’s for copy (written advertising materials), writing stories, putting together presentations, and more. If you’re good at writing and communicating clearly, there are plenty of possibilities with freelance writing.

Proofreading

If you’re good with details and know proper writing formats, you can make money proofreading other people’s writings. This is also something that doesn’t pay a lot, but can be the start of something that pays better and is more fun – like copywriting, editing, or even writing your own book.

Product Testing and Surveys

Businesses that sell products and goods want to test how consumers will respond to them, before releasing them to market, so that they can maximize their success. Product testers are essential to this process. Some businesses and organizations also conduct surveys, to help determine what consumers want and how a new product might sell. Therefore, they need product testers and survey takers to help them meet their business goals. Furthermore, this could also be a start to a higher-paying career path in eventually developing consumer products and goods.

Selling Goods Online

You could open your own online store, and sell goods online. See here for more about that. Although no particular qualifications are required to do this, or be successful at it, some kind of background in marketing and/or retail would be helpful.

Website Testing

A well-functioning, user-friendly website is a very valuable asset for an online business. Website testers help make this happen by having website testers use the website, and give feedback about how the user experience could be improved, and also what they liked about it. This kind of work is typically freelancing rather than regular employment. This could also start a path towards better-paying, in-demand jobs like UI/UX, web development, or website design.

Sell Your Artwork

If you’re creative and like to draw, paint, or make things, there are ways you can monetize that. You could start an account on Etsy. You could sell products with your designs on Amazon’s Merch on Demand. You could create your own website to sell your work. The possibilities are endless.

Virtual Assistant

Whether in person or remotely, businesses will always need assistants. Many of these positions are available remotely. Of course, experience requirements as well as compensation will vary greatly for assistant positions, but some of them are entry-level. This is also another type of position which can offer a lot of growth from entry-level, too.

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