Looking for part-time jobs for college students? Maybe you are a student looking for a way to earn some money during your free time. But, being so, you can only opt to work in part-time jobs, as you need some time to take classes and study, don’t you?

In this article I’m going to refer to the main traditional ways students use to earn some money on their free time, and, in the end of the article, I’m going to provide you with something very interesting which could help you much more than these jobs.

Internships could help you get a job later in the company, but they do have a disadvantage: most of them are non-paid. That is quite a trouble, as you do your labors for the company as if you were an actual employee, but without any retribution. Besides, it isn’t sure that you were going to get a job there once you finish your career.

Childcare is pretty self-explanatory, if you ever dealt with babies and children, you already know which kind of things will come your way if you work at this. The same goes for cleaning and elder care.

As wait staff you must be able to keep your head cold under pressure and smile to people you really don’t like. You’ll need a very nice memory to be able to keep in mind the orders and exactly who asked for what thing while receiving endless other orders. And don’t forget that, whenever the cook fails in something, it will be you the one who will have to bear with the complaints of the customers and apologize.

Being an office assistant, on its part, can be very stressful. You would have to deal with never-ending telephonic calls, a myriad of customers, thousands of reports, contracts and similar. Most times, people who work on offices are drowned in time periods to deliver those documents. To be continually exposed to stress eats your health away as time passes, so, that is something you must keep in mind when looking for a job.

These are some of the main traditional part-time jobs students use to get for their free time. However, the unstoppable growing of the internet transactions each year has added more ways to earn a living. Did you know that each year several billions of dollars are used on internet transactions? The growth of internet doesn’t stop, even with the economic crisis affecting the traditional markets.

This means lots of opportunities for the people who are willing to take advantage of the growth of the internet.

Nowadays, you can run an online business as an internet marketer, by selling your own products, or by promoting other people’s products in exchange for a commission (that is called “affiliate marketing”). And if you learn how to do it right, you can earn a very nice living out of it.

Internet marketing is unique because it allows you to become your own boss and earn your own money, working for yourself, answering to nobody but yourself, and from the comfort of your own house. I don’t know of any other work which allows so much freedom.

Everything that you need to be successful as internet marketer is to learn from the right source, have lots of motivation and apply your knowledge by taking lots of action. And you can have a very successful internet business running.

That’s why I believe that the future is in internet. It allows you to earn a living (which can be a very nice living if you put enough effort) without the hassle and worries of any traditional job. And it has another thing that a traditional job won’t ever have: in a traditional job you can expect to have a fixed salary, no matter how hard you work, but on internet marketing, your income depends on your efforts. On internet marketing, that fixed ceiling of retributions doesn’t exist.

On other words: on internet marketing, exploitation doesn’t exist, as you work only for yourself, not for others, and your income depends on your combination of knowledge and action, not on the decisions of someone above you. That is something that no ordinary job will ever be able to offer to you.

If you learn the right stuff, and apply your knowledge by taking lots of action, you will have a successful online business running producing some nice money for you.

Remember: if you do today what others won’t, you’ll enjoy tomorrow what others can’t.