Freelancing As A University Student

It can be done, but it won’t be easy

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I am a chemistry student in my final year of university.

Last year, at the end of August, I started freelancing on Fiverr. I was also putting in around 16–24 hours per week at my local shop. I eventually quit my job but continued to freelance on Fiverr and off the platform too, and now I am exclusively doing my own thing.

I had no real intention of freelancing, and when I first started writing for people on Fiverr, I didn’t even realise that is what I was doing. I was just writing for a bit of extra money.

I know there will be many others out there like me, but also many that know exactly what freelancing is and that want to try and do it alongside their studies.

I understand that it can be daunting, especially if you have never tried to manage anything else alongside your studies before. If you have experience working part time, then you will understand that time management becomes essential. But even if you don’t, you probably already know that just due to the way that university/college works.

Being a student is easy for some, and difficult for others. I find it to be somewhere in the middle. I didn’t socialise as much as the other first and second years, and by third year the work was getting…